No promotion, no raise, no recognition, grunt work
No promotion, no raise, no recognition, grunt work
Fun and competent team members if you're lucky, backstabby rat race if not.
Office is good enough, typical loud open-office, but manageable.
Social events from time to time.
Can switch projects regularly.
Possibility to move to another country if you want.
Projects are table scraps from US-based teams, mostly rewrites or maintenance.
US teams are eager to "take" work once it's done.
Senior managers are ignorant or incompetent, reporting only "good numbers" to higher ups.
Promoting juniors boosts "growth" numbers, creating a glass ceiling for everyone else.
Skip senior and mid-management. Let directors and VPs speak to tech staff. Let them know the truth for once.
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Software Development Engineer
1. Online Assessment Interview Invite to schedule. 2. Hiring Manager Round 2/3 LPs and 2 LeetCode medium problems. 3. Interview with SDE II Half an hour with LPs, and the other half doing a coding question to write maintainable code. 4. Bar Rai
Software Development Engineer
After passing the Online Assessment, you then move on to the Final Loop Interviews, which consist of, but not necessarily in specific order: * Behavioral Interview * Technical Coding Interview (Leetcode style) * Low Level Design interview (OOP)
Software Development Engineer
It went well, with half an hour for leadership principles and the other half an hour for coding and system design. It’s a great experience overall. System design, they expect more clarity.
Software Development Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United StatesNovember 19, 20251. Online Assessment Interview Invite to schedule. 2. Hiring Manager Round 2/3 LPs and 2 LeetCode medium problems. 3. Interview with SDE II Half an hour with LPs, and the other half doing a coding question to write maintainable code. 4. Bar Rai
Software Development Engineer
United StatesNovember 18, 2025After passing the Online Assessment, you then move on to the Final Loop Interviews, which consist of, but not necessarily in specific order: * Behavioral Interview * Technical Coding Interview (Leetcode style) * Low Level Design interview (OOP)
Software Development Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United StatesNovember 8, 2025It went well, with half an hour for leadership principles and the other half an hour for coding and system design. It’s a great experience overall. System design, they expect more clarity.
