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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Toronto, Ontario, CanadaAugust 28, 2025The second round was an OOP system design for a library. The third round involved time complexity analysis over two coding questions, one in strings and another on hash applications. The other questions were STAR behavioral questions.
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