Truly dedicated to the customer
Truly dedicated to the customer
High pay for Seattle, which is not the cheapest but definitely not the most expensive city.
As a software developer, there can be a lot of leeway for technologies used. A single engineer can be involved in all aspects of the product life cycle; there's little division of labor.
- UI
- Schema design
- Implementation
- Testing
- Maintenance
High hiring standards have paid off – your peers are very competent and many downright inspiring. The company really does make long-term strategic commitments and stick to them. Employees truly do frame meetings around, "So, how is this good for the customer?"
Hours can be long. PagerDuty is a burden. (Both of these vary widely by group).
Company-wide, there's not much room for promotion on the technical track (doesn't mean you can't get a raise or large RSU grant).
Praise doesn't come easily.
401k match is a garbage 2% of salary. Absolutely no support for continuing education.
Keep listening to the customers; it's worked wonderfully.
Quit with the RSUs and give us an ESP plan. RSUs don't breed ownership.
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Seattle, Washington, United StatesMay 9, 2026I applied through a staffing agency. There were a total of 2 rounds: * The first round was with an SDE II on Data Structures/Algo - Leet code questions mainly. * The second round was with an SDM Behavioral/System Design - Leadership principles and p
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Seattle, Washington, United StatesNovember 1, 2021A recruiter contacted me for the SDE2 role. Three days after the HR round, I was given a coding link. I solved that, and then they asked me to schedule four rounds. We could split the four rounds into sets of two for two consecutive days, but I gave
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Seattle, Washington, United StatesJanuary 1, 2022Coding assessment with two coding questions and a workstyle survey. Four rounds in a virtual onsite a month later: * One round with the hiring manager. * The other three with members of the team.
