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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I applied to a job opening on the Developer APIs team in Seattle via LinkedIn Jobs. A recruiter reached out a day or two afterward and scheduled me for a phone screening on CoderPad.io, which went fairly smoothly. However, it seemed I didn't leave a
Senior Software Engineer
A typical software engineering interview process includes a phone screen, a technical phone screen, and then an onsite if you pass the technical phone screen. This review is essentially a complaint to Square regarding the transparency of their inter
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
San Francisco, California, United StatesFebruary 1, 2018I applied to a job opening on the Developer APIs team in Seattle via LinkedIn Jobs. A recruiter reached out a day or two afterward and scheduled me for a phone screening on CoderPad.io, which went fairly smoothly. However, it seemed I didn't leave a
Senior Software Engineer
San Francisco, California, United StatesJuly 1, 2018A typical software engineering interview process includes a phone screen, a technical phone screen, and then an onsite if you pass the technical phone screen. This review is essentially a complaint to Square regarding the transparency of their inter
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
