Decentralized Decision Making
Decentralized Decision Making
The bottoms-up culture can be empowering. Decentralization allows teams to make the best local decisions.
Lack of cohesion and engineering leadership. Most decisions come from the bottom. Engineering managers are passthroughs and aggregators of information but delegate almost all decision-making. The company is organized around product silos. There isn't a lot of clear direction, unified vision, or effort to generate alignment.
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On 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
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A 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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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
Senior Software Engineer
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
