The company attracts genuinely talented people across all teams. The compensation is competitive with strong base salaries, and the work-life balance is quite good. There's a generous health day policy of 5 days. The product itself is interesting and technically challenging, so you're working on something meaningful rather than just maintaining legacy systems
Equity compensation feels increasingly meaningless as an IPO remains years away, making stock options essentially worthless paper. The return-to-office policy is particularly frustrating - requiring minimum 2 days per week (12 days monthly) with unnecessarily complex tracking that nobody asked for. The policy appears driven by external investor pressure rather than actual business needs, as internal sentiment is overwhelmingly negative. Management implemented this despite clear employee opposition, which raises questions about how much employee feedback actually influences decisions.
Listen to the employees.
A terrible experience. After passing all technical and fit interviews, I was rejected without any feedback. This is a very bad experience. Perhaps they need to change their feedback strategy.
Soft skills interview: two group tasks. 1. Come up with a startup idea. 2. In a group of other candidates, you are on an unknown island. Choose a leader and decide which 4 items to pick among those provided on a piece of paper. In the end, explain
The process involved LeetCode-style questions. They also presented database problems that you had to solve independently. This was not during an interview with another person.
A terrible experience. After passing all technical and fit interviews, I was rejected without any feedback. This is a very bad experience. Perhaps they need to change their feedback strategy.
Soft skills interview: two group tasks. 1. Come up with a startup idea. 2. In a group of other candidates, you are on an unknown island. Choose a leader and decide which 4 items to pick among those provided on a piece of paper. In the end, explain
The process involved LeetCode-style questions. They also presented database problems that you had to solve independently. This was not during an interview with another person.