There are plenty of intelligent and driven co-workers, so you learn a lot from being there.
Work-life balance will highly depend on where you work, customer needs, and your supervisor.
Depending on your life stage (e.g., single, married, kids), hours can feel demanding, so ask about it during your interview.
Folks focus on building great products but fail to document and think about ongoing sustainment.
Given the high turnover (people move on to work on other great products), the lack of documentation makes it challenging for the successor.
The interviews were very long. Tool 5 interviews and their questions were intentionally designed to reject you. They asked circuit questions or things that, as an engineer, you don't really use on a daily basis.
A simple question about linked lists. It was very easy; it happened during my fifth interview with them. I answered the question very easily. After this, they asked another question about state machines that I had forgotten.
Very little information was given regarding who would be interviewing me or whether the interview would be behavioral or technical. I never spoke to a recruiter about the position at all. It was, however, a direct dive into the nitty-gritty technical
The interviews were very long. Tool 5 interviews and their questions were intentionally designed to reject you. They asked circuit questions or things that, as an engineer, you don't really use on a daily basis.
A simple question about linked lists. It was very easy; it happened during my fifth interview with them. I answered the question very easily. After this, they asked another question about state machines that I had forgotten.
Very little information was given regarding who would be interviewing me or whether the interview would be behavioral or technical. I never spoke to a recruiter about the position at all. It was, however, a direct dive into the nitty-gritty technical