There is a good work-life balance if time is spent wisely.
It is very political, and you need to be close to the right people to succeed.
TLDR; I had a one-hour "coding exercise" interview where the interviewer didn't show up for the video call. They met with me 45 minutes late, were unprepared, hadn't read my resume, and didn't follow the previously communicated guidelines for the "co
Initial call with Hiring Manager - this is a regular screening of the candidate. Take-home Assignment - Simple parsing of CSV and output with some constraints. Rejection Mail - No feedback, and they do not value your time. Very bad response. Do no
Talk to the hiring manager one-on-one. Take-home assignment: can be done in any language of choice, but Python is preferred. This was a MapReduce problem. I solved the take-home assignment and passed all test cases. Never heard back from the recr
TLDR; I had a one-hour "coding exercise" interview where the interviewer didn't show up for the video call. They met with me 45 minutes late, were unprepared, hadn't read my resume, and didn't follow the previously communicated guidelines for the "co
Initial call with Hiring Manager - this is a regular screening of the candidate. Take-home Assignment - Simple parsing of CSV and output with some constraints. Rejection Mail - No feedback, and they do not value your time. Very bad response. Do no
Talk to the hiring manager one-on-one. Take-home assignment: can be done in any language of choice, but Python is preferred. This was a MapReduce problem. I solved the take-home assignment and passed all test cases. Never heard back from the recr