Highly stressful & high uncertainty
Highly stressful & high uncertainty
Things move fast, and you will learn a lot of new stuff in a relatively short period of time. Compensation is well above peer Internet companies if you are able to deliver really good work.
Work-life balance is bad.
Company always tries to brainwash you to work harder.
Projects are not well planned. A lot of waste of resources on useless or redundant projects.
Your performance is evaluated against other colleagues in your team. If everybody works hard, it needs some luck and takes a lot of extra effort to not be evaluated as an "under-performer".
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Three questions: two LeetCode hard, one LeetCode easy. One dynamic programming question and one two-pointer question. I was only able to solve one, which is really bad. I should have solved all the two-pointer questions.
Software Engineer
Took a test and asked questions for more than 20 minutes. Asked a lot of technical questions, including how to cooperate with colleagues and how to communicate with leaders. Took an IQ test.
Software Engineer
Just basics of CSE: Data Structures, Java, Python, C, C++. 1. Motors and Motor Types 2. Fundamental Theorems 3. Basic Electrical Laws 4. Digital Logic and Circuits 5. Basic Components and Electronics 6. Oscillators and Amplifiers 7. Memory Allocatio
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October 13, 2025Three questions: two LeetCode hard, one LeetCode easy. One dynamic programming question and one two-pointer question. I was only able to solve one, which is really bad. I should have solved all the two-pointer questions.
Software Engineer
SingaporeJuly 25, 2025Took a test and asked questions for more than 20 minutes. Asked a lot of technical questions, including how to cooperate with colleagues and how to communicate with leaders. Took an IQ test.
Software Engineer
Chenari, Bihar, IndiaFebruary 1, 2025Just basics of CSE: Data Structures, Java, Python, C, C++. 1. Motors and Motor Types 2. Fundamental Theorems 3. Basic Electrical Laws 4. Digital Logic and Circuits 5. Basic Components and Electronics 6. Oscillators and Amplifiers 7. Memory Allocatio
