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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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
The interview process was pretty standard. It began with a first phone screen with a recruiter, followed by a second phone screen with an engineer. The process concluded with a full-day onsite interview, running from 9 am to 5 pm, which included a co
Senior Software Engineer
I had a 30-minute phone screen call, followed by a 1-hour coding challenge. The interviewer was nice and tried to understand my approach, but unfortunately, they weren't able to offer much assistance with the coding test itself.
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
Senior Software Engineer
San Francisco, California, United StatesNovember 1, 2012The interview process was pretty standard. It began with a first phone screen with a recruiter, followed by a second phone screen with an engineer. The process concluded with a full-day onsite interview, running from 9 am to 5 pm, which included a co
Senior Software Engineer
San Francisco, California, United StatesSeptember 1, 2019I had a 30-minute phone screen call, followed by a 1-hour coding challenge. The interviewer was nice and tried to understand my approach, but unfortunately, they weren't able to offer much assistance with the coding test itself.
