Good compensation and interesting work, but unstable leadership
Good compensation and interesting work, but unstable leadership
- Compensation was good.
- Interesting problems to work on and reasonable autonomy to get things done.
- Leadership would churn all the time, and direction often changes.
- Cash App and Square felt like they were in constant competition with each other rather than part of the same company.
- I've heard it's gotten better, but there was enormous pressure to crank out code for a time.
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You'll be contacted by the hiring manager first to walk you through the process. This is with a super nice person, followed by a 1-hour pair programming session where you code and explain to the interviewer. It's similar to Google and Amazon type int
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Call with a recruiter, technical phone screen. The experience was really good. The engineer on call was very nice and helpful. Has not seen this question before, so freaked out at the beginning.
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Senior Software Engineer
United StatesJune 3, 2021As an engineer with 10 years of experience, I was drawn to Square because they boast about their interview process being less algo/DS/LeetCode-centric and more relevant to day-to-day work. With a decade on my CV, I thought I'd have a good venue to di
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United StatesApril 1, 2019Call with a recruiter, technical phone screen. The experience was really good. The engineer on call was very nice and helpful. Has not seen this question before, so freaked out at the beginning.
