Avoid at all costs
Avoid at all costs
Just a paycheck, nothing else.
Long work hours, no personal life; 10 hours a day is normal, and you need to reply to emails and texts at night. Four hours of meetings every day force you to work in the late evening. Low morale across engineers since something is wrong with the culture. Managers keep pushing without reasonable deadlines.
Rewards are really low for the high-intensity work; pay is low in the Bay Area, and the stuff learned from this company is not that useful for other industries. In addition, managers always ask engineers to think, but there is no autonomy and no time to think through problems. Even if you think, no one will care what you think.
So many directors and managers pull you in different directions; sometimes they have no idea what they are doing.
Management needs to value engineers' effort. You may already see the talent leaving this company.
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United StatesOctober 16, 2025The interview process was quick. Additionally, it seemed simpler than others, but the questions felt like they did a better job filtering to the core of someone's strengths and weaknesses.
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