It's fun if you make it fun
It's fun if you make it fun
- Challenging problems (depending on which part you work on)
- Fun environment
- A lot of "not invented here" -- if you can play it right, you can build quite an engineering portfolio for yourself
- If you are an adrenaline junkie, you will enjoy the rush of having to fix a broken website in real-time.
- Management seems to recognize some failures and is remedying them, slowly but surely.
- Boring work (if you don't work in a good group).
- Too much decentralization -- lots of inter-group bickering that wouldn't happen at other shops.
- Too much "not invented here."
It may be time to decide that the "service owner model" is no longer viable, and begin centralizing.
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Software Development Engineer
1. Online Assessment Interview Invite to schedule. 2. Hiring Manager Round 2/3 LPs and 2 LeetCode medium problems. 3. Interview with SDE II Half an hour with LPs, and the other half doing a coding question to write maintainable code. 4. Bar Rai
Software Development Engineer
It went well, with half an hour for leadership principles and the other half an hour for coding and system design. It’s a great experience overall. System design, they expect more clarity.
Software Development Engineer
Leetcode-style questions. You are given an image represented by an m x n grid of integers, `image`, where `image[i][j]` represents the pixel value of the image. You are also given three integers: `sr`, `sc`, and `color`. Your task is to perform a
Software Development Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United StatesNovember 19, 20251. Online Assessment Interview Invite to schedule. 2. Hiring Manager Round 2/3 LPs and 2 LeetCode medium problems. 3. Interview with SDE II Half an hour with LPs, and the other half doing a coding question to write maintainable code. 4. Bar Rai
Software Development Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United StatesNovember 8, 2025It went well, with half an hour for leadership principles and the other half an hour for coding and system design. It’s a great experience overall. System design, they expect more clarity.
Software Development Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United StatesSeptember 26, 2025Leetcode-style questions. You are given an image represented by an m x n grid of integers, `image`, where `image[i][j]` represents the pixel value of the image. You are also given three integers: `sr`, `sc`, and `color`. Your task is to perform a
