Good company overall; I'd recommend to other Engineers
Good company overall; I'd recommend to other Engineers
Great work/life balance.
Talented engineers.
Folks are generally passionate about the stuff they work on.
There's a lot of freedom to focus on what you want to do.
There are a lot of different products to explore and work on. You'll get plenty of diversity in your work if that's what you're looking for.
Block is starting to lose its original culture of bottoms-up thinking and freedom to work on the things you like to work on. It's pretty normal for companies to do this once they reach a certain size. Block's culture is definitely changing because of its size.
Continue to focus on work-life balance and giving ICs the freedom to work on the things they're passionate about.
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Staff Engineer
Conducted six interviews, meeting with a lot of people, both technical and non-technical. A very bizarre, narrow-sighted architectural interview was encountered. Overall, the people were generally nice, but I got the impression the company was a li
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
Front End Developer
I talked to a recruiter, then had a technical interview with an engineer over Codepen. I thought this interview was extremely fair and enjoyable. They gave me a small codebase to debug, as well as build new features. The interviewer provided helpful
Staff Engineer
San Francisco, California, United StatesSeptember 1, 2021Conducted six interviews, meeting with a lot of people, both technical and non-technical. A very bizarre, narrow-sighted architectural interview was encountered. Overall, the people were generally nice, but I got the impression the company was a li
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
Front End Developer
San Francisco, California, United StatesMarch 1, 2020I talked to a recruiter, then had a technical interview with an engineer over Codepen. I thought this interview was extremely fair and enjoyable. They gave me a small codebase to debug, as well as build new features. The interviewer provided helpful
