Customer obsession. If you're smart enough not to get trapped in the politics of the "bureaucratic middle," you can find a lot of agency for building and delivering valuable products.
A lot of SOPs make prototyping harder than it should be, but they are usually there for good reasons.
DEI culture creates pockets of adolescent mentality adults, sometimes feeling you've stepped into a kindergarten or mental clinic, but it's not nearly as bad as the big ones (and little ones) from SF.
Beware of bloated middle management, particularly promoting engineers past their level of incompetence as managers and leaders.
Take it easy with DEI. In a couple of years, you're going to be wishing the people that stayed in the company stayed for merit and not for some professionally-unrelated characteristic. The latter tend to be entitled and have zero customer obsession; they believe the company exists to deliver value to them, not to deliver value to customers and society.
Interview process: Online assessment, followed by a recruiter screen, then four technical rounds — two coding interviews focusing on algorithms and problem-solving, one coding interview like low-level system design, and one system-design interview ev
The process started with a recruiter reaching out, followed by an online assessment. After passing the test, I was invited to a four-round onsite loop spread across one week. I had around 20 days of preparation time before the loop. Each round foc
Tough. Interviewers didn't pay attention sometimes, on their phone, etc. They also didn't really listen to what I was saying. It seemed like they were there to check a box. Not helpful at all when I asked for further clarification outputs.
Interview process: Online assessment, followed by a recruiter screen, then four technical rounds — two coding interviews focusing on algorithms and problem-solving, one coding interview like low-level system design, and one system-design interview ev
The process started with a recruiter reaching out, followed by an online assessment. After passing the test, I was invited to a four-round onsite loop spread across one week. I had around 20 days of preparation time before the loop. Each round foc
Tough. Interviewers didn't pay attention sometimes, on their phone, etc. They also didn't really listen to what I was saying. It seemed like they were there to check a box. Not helpful at all when I asked for further clarification outputs.