Great product and mission, low stress (no crunching for deadlines), collaborative atmosphere, and great career advancement opportunities.
Low diversity in L6+ employees.
Software infrastructure is not prioritized.
There is not as much collaboration between Square and Cash as there should be.
Alyssa Henry is an inspirational leader to work for.
Vol. 2 Codings + 1 System Design + 1 Past Experience. The code needs to be compilable and bug-free. The system design is always the same question: designing a hotel booking system.
The process began with a phone screen followed by a remote coding challenge. I felt I kind of botched that initial challenge, presenting a correct but overly complicated solution that I couldn't debug in time. I asked for a retry, which they granted,
I went through a phone interview and then had a face-to-face interview. The phone interview consisted of a series of high-level technical questions, seemingly to confirm my technical background.
Vol. 2 Codings + 1 System Design + 1 Past Experience. The code needs to be compilable and bug-free. The system design is always the same question: designing a hotel booking system.
The process began with a phone screen followed by a remote coding challenge. I felt I kind of botched that initial challenge, presenting a correct but overly complicated solution that I couldn't debug in time. I asked for a retry, which they granted,
I went through a phone interview and then had a face-to-face interview. The phone interview consisted of a series of high-level technical questions, seemingly to confirm my technical background.