Fascinating projects, poor work-life balance
Fascinating projects, poor work-life balance
- Work with top talent.
- Work on high-scale, fascinating work.
- Good company mobility. Changing teams every year or two is encouraged, giving the opportunity for a lot of diversity of experience if desired.
Depending on your team and your project, the work-life balance for software developers and software development managers can be very poor (frequent on-call rotations, 50+ hours per week norm, unreasonably demanding management).
This varies greatly from team to team. Some teams are excellent at providing a good balance, and others are meat-grinders.
It depends so much on your management chain. Can your manager negotiate appropriate boundaries such that other teams do not take advantage of you? Is your manager obsessed with arbitrary delivery dates, and will he or she pressure the team at all costs to meet them? Does your manager know how to put together detailed multi-quarter delivery plans?
If the answers are "yes", "no", and "yes", then you should be alright.
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Software Development Engineer-II
I had one phone screen and 4 additional remote interviews for my 'loop'. They were all pretty much the same, with a technical question and behaviorals. 3 of the 5 interviewers were very nice and enjoyable to interview with, while 2 of them were unhel
Software Internship
Applied, waited a while, got OA, two-question LC med, final round behavioral + LC easy. Waitlisted then got off the waitlist. Pretty chill process, maybe somewhat RNG with interviewer. Chill process overall.
Software Engineer
It was easy and to the point. The interviewer was sweet and allowed me enough time to think about how to approach solving the problems. The coding question asked was for an inventory and managing it. It was an easy solve with the right data structure
Software Development Engineer-II
Seattle, Washington, United StatesAugust 1, 2025I had one phone screen and 4 additional remote interviews for my 'loop'. They were all pretty much the same, with a technical question and behaviorals. 3 of the 5 interviewers were very nice and enjoyable to interview with, while 2 of them were unhel
Software Internship
United StatesNovember 25, 2025Applied, waited a while, got OA, two-question LC med, final round behavioral + LC easy. Waitlisted then got off the waitlist. Pretty chill process, maybe somewhat RNG with interviewer. Chill process overall.
Software Engineer
AmmanNovember 25, 2025It was easy and to the point. The interviewer was sweet and allowed me enough time to think about how to approach solving the problems. The coding question asked was for an inventory and managing it. It was an easy solve with the right data structure
