Come for the mission, stay for the tech challenges!
Come for the mission, stay for the tech challenges!
If you are mission-driven, then you would enjoy this company and its mission of Economic Empowerment.
There are lots of interesting business problems to solve. These problems often translate into complex engineering challenges.
Square also has scale, both in terms of product and its organization. Most recently, a lot of groups started the long journey of cloud migration.
The overall technical direction of the company is often missing, and it's left to teams to get aligned. While this meritocratic approach can lead to "best team's solution wins" situations, this is not always the case. Technical decision-making is often slow as a result of this approach.
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I applied online. The process took six weeks. It was remote and pretty smooth. The interview started with a coding screen, and then the onsite consisted of more coding problems. It also had a round of behavioral questions as well as a project deep d
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Full day of small projects. Very specific, with a mix of DevOps and SRE implicitly, which was not what I was there for. The lunch was good, though this was several years ago. The company has since moved buildings, gone public, and has not performed
Software Engineer
I was contacted by a recruiter through LinkedIn. We had an initial chat, followed by a "pairing interview" with an Engineer. We walked through a problem together, and I arrived at a running solution. However, I couldn't gauge my performance because t
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San Jose, California, United StatesJanuary 22, 2026I applied online. The process took six weeks. It was remote and pretty smooth. The interview started with a coding screen, and then the onsite consisted of more coding problems. It also had a round of behavioral questions as well as a project deep d
Software Engineer
San Francisco, California, United StatesApril 1, 2013Full day of small projects. Very specific, with a mix of DevOps and SRE implicitly, which was not what I was there for. The lunch was good, though this was several years ago. The company has since moved buildings, gone public, and has not performed
Software Engineer
San Francisco, California, United StatesJuly 1, 2017I was contacted by a recruiter through LinkedIn. We had an initial chat, followed by a "pairing interview" with an Engineer. We walked through a problem together, and I arrived at a running solution. However, I couldn't gauge my performance because t
