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The engineers are good and collaborative folks.
The leadership at Block has moved away from its original values, pivoting toward a high-pressure environment defined by aggressive PIPs and same-day layoffs. While the company is adopting the "ruthless efficiency" model of firms like Meta, the total compensation (TC) remains uncompetitive by comparison. It is no longer the employee-centric workplace it used to be, and the rewards don't currently match the risks.
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Senior Software Engineer
I had a phone screen with the recruiter and two pair programming sessions done via CoderPad. The pair programming problems I received weren't from LeetCode, but they were very much in that style. They weren't difficult, but they had multiple steps,
Senior Software Engineer
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,
Senior Software Engineer
I was contacted by a recruiter on LinkedIn. She explained the standard procedure: two phone screens and one onsite interview. We used CoderPad for the phone screens. The first phone screen was conducted via Skype. We discussed my background briefly
Senior Software Engineer
Atlanta, Georgia, United StatesDecember 1, 2021I had a phone screen with the recruiter and two pair programming sessions done via CoderPad. The pair programming problems I received weren't from LeetCode, but they were very much in that style. They weren't difficult, but they had multiple steps,
Senior Software Engineer
Melbourne, AustraliaJune 1, 2019The 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,
Senior Software Engineer
San Francisco, California, United StatesApril 1, 2016I was contacted by a recruiter on LinkedIn. She explained the standard procedure: two phone screens and one onsite interview. We used CoderPad for the phone screens. The first phone screen was conducted via Skype. We discussed my background briefly
