The salaries and stock were above average. The colleagues were kind and fun to work with. As an international company, people respected each other's working schedule.
The work itself was not fulfilling. Experimental directions or projects were shut down too frequently. The management did not properly appreciate the value of lifelong learning. The opportunities for real career growth were lacking.
Finally, the company and some employees were fixated on bitcoin too much, trying to justify the environmental damage of a zero-sum game in an echo chamber.
I was interviewed by someone with only 1 year of experience. The questions were very basic, and I wrote the code, yet I was rejected with the default explanation.
3 rounds of technical interviews; some were closer to LC mediums, and others were more class implementation focused. Follow-ups were also pretty standard and asked about time/space complexity. For my internship cycle, you had to pass all 3 techs (a p
Phone screen with recruiter. Tech phone screen: Coding round on CoderPad with a 5-part question, similar to LeetCode. It involved something about probability and next words. I didn't pass, but after passing there is a virtual onsite.
I was interviewed by someone with only 1 year of experience. The questions were very basic, and I wrote the code, yet I was rejected with the default explanation.
3 rounds of technical interviews; some were closer to LC mediums, and others were more class implementation focused. Follow-ups were also pretty standard and asked about time/space complexity. For my internship cycle, you had to pass all 3 techs (a p
Phone screen with recruiter. Tech phone screen: Coding round on CoderPad with a 5-part question, similar to LeetCode. It involved something about probability and next words. I didn't pass, but after passing there is a virtual onsite.