High Pay, Toxic Management, No Balance
High Pay, Toxic Management, No Balance
Their pay is better than most companies, but you have to work extremely long hours and weekends.
Zero work/life balance.
Unethical management. The manager in my department (Silicon Engineering Group) only cares what his/her boss thinks and tries whatever possible to please his/her boss. They consistently made up stories/lies to make themselves look good in front of others. If things go bad, they try their best to blame others and cover their faults.
Nonfunctional HR. HR plays a very weak role. Reporting management issues to HR does not help; instead, retaliation is what you can get.
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Principal Engineer
Recruited through a referral. Skyped with the recruiter. Went through a phone interview and then had a face-to-face with the recruiter. After a week, I had an interview with the Director. It was a very complex interview process, with five rounds.
Software Engineer (Internship)
Overall smooth. Had 3 interviews: one behavioral and 2 technical. Heavy system design and debugging. Interviewers were nice, standard interview format with an introduction and then mostly technical questions. Some OOP concepts needed as well.
Machine Learning Engineer
It was a pretty standard big tech interview process. At a high level, it had the following steps: * Recruiter call * Hiring Manager screen * Technical phone screen * Onsite
Principal Engineer
United StatesNovember 29, 2018Recruited through a referral. Skyped with the recruiter. Went through a phone interview and then had a face-to-face with the recruiter. After a week, I had an interview with the Director. It was a very complex interview process, with five rounds.
Software Engineer (Internship)
Cupertino, California, United StatesNovember 18, 2025Overall smooth. Had 3 interviews: one behavioral and 2 technical. Heavy system design and debugging. Interviewers were nice, standard interview format with an introduction and then mostly technical questions. Some OOP concepts needed as well.
Machine Learning Engineer
Cupertino, California, United StatesNovember 17, 2025It was a pretty standard big tech interview process. At a high level, it had the following steps: * Recruiter call * Hiring Manager screen * Technical phone screen * Onsite
