Challenging, but not rewarding
Challenging, but not rewarding
You will learn a lot. You will work with some very smart people on some very hard problems. You will grow and develop your ability to use data for effective decision-making.
You will no longer have a life. Expect an intense 8-9 hours of work each day, plus 3-6 days of on-call each month if you are an SDE (weekends too!). Perks are minimal to nonexistent compared to the rest of the industry. Pay is average. Equipment is outright cheap and sometimes painful to deal with.
I was lucky enough to be on a team whose manager is nothing short of amazing. All advice below goes to senior management.
Raise salaries. Be more understanding of employee needs/requirements and don't treat them at a large scale like sheep. Employees are not robots but people who need to spend quality time with their friends and family. If you cannot understand and respect that, people will keep leaving the company at year 2 despite the stock awards that vest at year 3 and 4.
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Software Development Engineer I
The first round was a two-question online assessment. The second round was a virtual onsite with four rounds. Each round, the interviewer spent about 30 minutes covering leadership principle questions and left about 30 minutes for technical coding
Software Development Engineer I
There was an OA, a phone round with the recruiter, and then a loop with the panel. This included medium and hard LeetCode problems, followed by system design.
Software Development Engineer I
Round 1: OA. Cleared in November 2024. No word until February 2025 when I was told I was scheduled for interviews. A week later, they wrote back stating that email was sent "by mistake" and should not be considered. Another recruiter reached out in
Software Development Engineer I
Seattle, Washington, United StatesNovember 1, 2021The first round was a two-question online assessment. The second round was a virtual onsite with four rounds. Each round, the interviewer spent about 30 minutes covering leadership principle questions and left about 30 minutes for technical coding
Software Development Engineer I
Seattle, Washington, United StatesMarch 1, 2024There was an OA, a phone round with the recruiter, and then a loop with the panel. This included medium and hard LeetCode problems, followed by system design.
Software Development Engineer I
Seattle, Washington, United StatesApril 1, 2025Round 1: OA. Cleared in November 2024. No word until February 2025 when I was told I was scheduled for interviews. A week later, they wrote back stating that email was sent "by mistake" and should not be considered. Another recruiter reached out in
