Great Growth, Tough Challenges
Great Growth, Tough Challenges
- Growth, Growth, Growth
- RSU packages are extremely valuable (4.2X stock growth over 24 months!)
- Benefits are nice (unlimited vacation, WFH, etc.)
- Still a lot of unsolved hard engineering challenges
- Strong engineering culture
- A mission (economic empowerment) that's worth fighting for
- Positive impact on businesses
Major innovation is getting harder to achieve. Case in point: introducing something like Square Cash is challenging now due to inter-dependencies on other teams.
Certain internal departments are not as strong as engineering.
While a high level of decentralization is good, a lack of strong mandate makes it difficult to push for larger changes.
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In broad strokes, the process began with a phone screen. After that, there were two separate CoderPad pair programming interviews. Following that was a "virtual onsite" (given the ongoing Coronavirus shelter-in-place order), which included: * Three
Senior Software Engineer
San Francisco, California, United StatesSeptember 1, 2022On one hand, I really love the way Block evaluates employees. I think the process truly mimics the skills needed on the job, especially around collaboration and communication. All my interviewers were very good and truly reflected the collaborative c
Senior Software Engineer
San Francisco, California, United StatesMarch 1, 2021A recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn and conducted a 30-minute phone screening. A few days later, a technical interview was scheduled. The technical interview was a 1-hour paired coding challenge. The technical interview was awful! The intervie
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San Francisco, California, United StatesMarch 1, 2020In broad strokes, the process began with a phone screen. After that, there were two separate CoderPad pair programming interviews. Following that was a "virtual onsite" (given the ongoing Coronavirus shelter-in-place order), which included: * Three
