Great people, but bad work politics
Great people, but bad work politics
Pay is pretty good for new grads.
Salary has steadily increased as the demand for SWEs increases. Two base salary increases across the board in the last 1.5 years, but not everyone gets it (more on that in cons).
Work-life balance is great, but this can vary by what team you're on and management.
Stack rankings. Even if you're a hard worker, if you have stellar coworkers/teammates, good luck. You'll get rated poorly and get blindsided because you weren't given any feedback throughout the year, hence no real opportunities to improve.
If you're rated below strong, aka "performing as expected," you will not get a salary bump, even if the people who've been at the company for 3 months get the bump by default because they're "too new to rate."
Work politics are clearly at play when it comes to performance reviews at mid-year and year-end.
If you're placed on a team with a manager whose expectations are too high, good luck.
Get rid of stack rankings.
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I was sent the CodeSignal assessment immediately after applying and never heard back from them until months later with a rejection. I think this was because they weren't trying to hire any full-time new grads.
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McLean, Virginia, United StatesMarch 19, 2026Very consistent and streamlined. The highlight was a 'Power Day', a single afternoon of consecutive interviews with engineers. The overall hiring timeline was very long. They asked about technical skills, system design, and cultural fit.
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McLean, Virginia, United StatesSeptember 1, 2022The interview process consisted of three rounds: * A phone screen. * An online self-coding assessment. * A live coding assessment, which included two other interviews, all within a four-hour period. The coding problems were not overly challen
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McLean, Virginia, United StatesOctober 9, 2024I was sent the CodeSignal assessment immediately after applying and never heard back from them until months later with a rejection. I think this was because they weren't trying to hire any full-time new grads.
