Pay is good; learning curve is steep
Pay is good; learning curve is steep
Money! Lots of autonomy. Almost every engineer at the company is smart and competent. People are generally helpful and kind.
All applications run at a ridiculously large scale, which makes requirements extremely complex. Microservices everywhere!
It can be exhausting. Also, on-call is not fun and can encroach on your home time.
More focus on building quality software so we can spend less time on call.
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Software Development Engineer
It was a standard one-round OA and five-round onsite. Each question was a LeetCode medium/hard. It went relatively smoothly, and the engineers were quite helpful. It took them a week to come to a decision, and from there on, it would be conversations
Software Development Engineer
Three rounds total: * Two HackerRank coding questions * Three hours of behavioral questions (recorded) * A virtual interview for 30 minutes, related to the time and space complexity of the problems solved in Round 1, and also alternate approaches.
Software Development Engineer
A pretty standard "big tech" interview. It begins with a LeetCode screening interview, automated through a service. For the final loop: * A LeetCode-style coding interview. * A system design interview. * A couple of behavioral interviews. There i
Software Development Engineer
Austin, Texas, United StatesSeptember 1, 2023It was a standard one-round OA and five-round onsite. Each question was a LeetCode medium/hard. It went relatively smoothly, and the engineers were quite helpful. It took them a week to come to a decision, and from there on, it would be conversations
Software Development Engineer
Austin, Texas, United StatesJune 1, 2022Three rounds total: * Two HackerRank coding questions * Three hours of behavioral questions (recorded) * A virtual interview for 30 minutes, related to the time and space complexity of the problems solved in Round 1, and also alternate approaches.
Software Development Engineer
Austin, Texas, United StatesFebruary 22, 2025A pretty standard "big tech" interview. It begins with a LeetCode screening interview, automated through a service. For the final loop: * A LeetCode-style coding interview. * A system design interview. * A couple of behavioral interviews. There i
