Good but overrated
Good but overrated
As a developer specifically, [they have a] great engineering culture. They actually care about things like testing their code, which many startups only give lip service to.
Still has a startup-like atmosphere for a pretty old company.
Some nice fringe benefits: health/dental/vision 100% covered, lots of cheap-to-free food.
Low salaries for a public company. Equity compensation for me was equal to about 1 year's salary but vesting over 4 years. Even including the 25% premium, it’s still low for the SF Bay Area.
Required engineers to be on-call, at least on my team, but did not properly compensate. I have never worked anywhere that required engineers to be on-call unless it was shortly after a launch. Maybe they would be expected to fix their code if it failed catastrophically, but not like this.
Has only half a CEO.
In an extremely low-margin, competitive business with no solid plan for turning a profit. It’s the worst-kept secret of both Square and Twitter. Everyone seems to know it except him and the respective boards. Jack needs to try with one, or he will fail with both in my opinion.
Fire Jack
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The process began with a quick phone call, followed by a CoderPad-based interview conducted over Skype. The interview involved the interviewer from Square presenting a problem statement. I was expected to write a working solution, including test cas
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I honestly liked it a lot. I applied for a new grad software engineer position. I got to the second round but was rejected. The interviewers smile a lot and make you feel comfortable, but that may be misleading. You should really practice simple da
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I was contacted by an internal recruiter via LinkedIn, and we set up a call. During the call, she talked about their products and different verticals. She did a great job in getting me interested in Square. A few days later, I had the phone screen.
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San Francisco, California, United StatesMay 1, 2014The process began with a quick phone call, followed by a CoderPad-based interview conducted over Skype. The interview involved the interviewer from Square presenting a problem statement. I was expected to write a working solution, including test cas
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San Francisco, California, United StatesOctober 21, 2015I honestly liked it a lot. I applied for a new grad software engineer position. I got to the second round but was rejected. The interviewers smile a lot and make you feel comfortable, but that may be misleading. You should really practice simple da
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San Francisco, California, United StatesMarch 1, 2016I was contacted by an internal recruiter via LinkedIn, and we set up a call. During the call, she talked about their products and different verticals. She did a great job in getting me interested in Square. A few days later, I had the phone screen.
