A lot of challenges.
There is potential for sure. The SWE I met is very bright and intelligent!
The developer experience is horrible. Management is the worst I have seen in 10 YOE. There is no work-life balance if you are on the critical path.
Management has no idea what's going on. They take the wins and blame individuals for missing deadlines or failures. Bad policies, especially.
The process began promisingly: the company reached out proactively and offered an interesting Staff Software Engineer position. I successfully passed the HR screening interview and the technical interview with a tech lead, who immediately communicate
Two Months and Eight Interviews: The process was quite long, lasting two months and involving eight interviews. This felt a bit excessive. No Feedback on Performance: I received zero feedback throughout the process. I would have appreciated some i
Recruiter screen - Standard questions around past experiences. Coding round - LeetCode Hard. It was tagged as a pretty much identical question on LeetCode, which I was able to answer easily. They then asked multiple follow-ups, but I was ultimately
The process began promisingly: the company reached out proactively and offered an interesting Staff Software Engineer position. I successfully passed the HR screening interview and the technical interview with a tech lead, who immediately communicate
Two Months and Eight Interviews: The process was quite long, lasting two months and involving eight interviews. This felt a bit excessive. No Feedback on Performance: I received zero feedback throughout the process. I would have appreciated some i
Recruiter screen - Standard questions around past experiences. Coding round - LeetCode Hard. It was tagged as a pretty much identical question on LeetCode, which I was able to answer easily. They then asked multiple follow-ups, but I was ultimately