Too big for its own good
Too big for its own good
- Exposure to large-scale distributed systems and complex architecture.
- Opportunities to work with talented engineers (less of this lately as all the good ones are being driven out by incompetent managers).
- High ownership and autonomy in some teams.
- Increasing focus on delivering projects at all costs, leading to technical debt and unstable systems.
- Frequent leadership changes and shifting priorities without a clear long-term vision.
- Multiple overlapping projects competing internally rather than collaborating.
- Promotions often tied to quick wins, leaving long-term maintainability for others to fix.
- Recent gen AI push with tracking of tool usage, commit counts, etc., that appears to be a setup for upcoming layoffs.
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Software Engineer
It was good, but they didn't respond to me for a long time after 14 days. I asked them why, but they didn't respond back.
Product Manager - Technical
First round: Hiring manager screening. This covers leadership principles important for the job. Final round: Five interviews with a writing assessment. Each round covers around three leadership principles. All interviews are behavioral.
Software Engineer
Initial phone call with a recruiter, followed by a 90-minute coding assignment. This consisted of standard LeetCode-style algorithm and data structures problems, loosely related to the specific role and easy to prepare for by using normal resources.
Software Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United StatesNovember 20, 2025It was good, but they didn't respond to me for a long time after 14 days. I asked them why, but they didn't respond back.
Product Manager - Technical
Seattle, Washington, United StatesNovember 20, 2025First round: Hiring manager screening. This covers leadership principles important for the job. Final round: Five interviews with a writing assessment. Each round covers around three leadership principles. All interviews are behavioral.
Software Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United StatesNovember 19, 2025Initial phone call with a recruiter, followed by a 90-minute coding assignment. This consisted of standard LeetCode-style algorithm and data structures problems, loosely related to the specific role and easy to prepare for by using normal resources.
