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.
HR Call: Walkthrough Resume 1 Round: SQL (like window functions) DE Manager: Dive into details about resume, data quality and data security problems in daily work, and the easy and hard parts of the job. Failed here.
There are three different 60-minute coding rounds with various engineers from different teams. You have to make it past one to do the next, and if you make it past the third, you get an offer.
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.
HR Call: Walkthrough Resume 1 Round: SQL (like window functions) DE Manager: Dive into details about resume, data quality and data security problems in daily work, and the easy and hard parts of the job. Failed here.
There are three different 60-minute coding rounds with various engineers from different teams. You have to make it past one to do the next, and if you make it past the third, you get an offer.