Far too many meetings, and too little senior engineering leadership
Far too many meetings, and too little senior engineering leadership
- Good wages, hard to beat in my city (Toronto).
- Flexible hours; not much of a morning person, so working 11-7 suited me more.
- Good amount of freedom on tasks.
Far too much time spent in meetings. Sprint planning would take upwards of 3 hours sometimes.
Senior engineering leadership is basically non-existent at the Toronto office. The most senior engineer I had access to had been at the company 2 years, and working a total of 4. We had an SDE III assigned to our team, but we only saw him about twice during my term.
- Reduce the gap between SDE II, SDE III, and Principal engineer positions. People seem to either move into management or quit after working as engineers for a couple years, as the career path quickly stagnates.
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SDE-intern
One round of technical interviews, which usually includes one LeetCode-style question. Doing the tagged questions might be a good start. Then, you also have a behavioral portion where you answer questions based on the leadership principles.
Software Engineering Intern
Medium-level LeetCode questions (easy dynamic programming and a frequency list question). Also asked for three behavioral questions that you have to tie to their leadership principles very tightly.
Software Development Engineer (SDE)
Leetcode and systems design, which consisted of dynamic programming and designing a ticket ordering platform. This was not too difficult and was a good experience because they were nice and great at their jobs.
SDE-intern
Toronto, Ontario, CanadaNovember 13, 2025One round of technical interviews, which usually includes one LeetCode-style question. Doing the tagged questions might be a good start. Then, you also have a behavioral portion where you answer questions based on the leadership principles.
Software Engineering Intern
Toronto, Ontario, CanadaOctober 26, 2025Medium-level LeetCode questions (easy dynamic programming and a frequency list question). Also asked for three behavioral questions that you have to tie to their leadership principles very tightly.
Software Development Engineer (SDE)
Toronto, Ontario, CanadaOctober 18, 2025Leetcode and systems design, which consisted of dynamic programming and designing a ticket ordering platform. This was not too difficult and was a good experience because they were nice and great at their jobs.
