The salary is good and higher ups are always pushing to use and look into new technologies and approaches. There is little "legacy" code, everything is kept up to date and the "old" code is still decent. Plenty of learning opportunities and exposure to new technologies - there's also a lot of encouragement from management to take on explicit learning and courses which is great. People seem very nice and employee happiness seems to be taken into account often - there's a good offering of perks beyond just the salary, and plenty of events/activities to get involved with. Checkout's handling of covid has also been great so far with no expectation to risk your health unnecessarily.
Payments and the finance industry can get slightly boring at times, depending on what you're working on. Though it's more interesting than it otherwise would be because of the modern stack. Plus, that's what they pay you for.
The introductory HR screen, where they discussed the company, seemed fine. However, the HR representative didn't appear very confident in judging what a software engineer actually is. They asked whether a developer can do what a software engineer doe
1 easy HackerRank, 2 technical rounds followed. They are a very cheap company. The offer was terrible: £40k and no RSUs. It's funny how they kept showing a video of a guy who went skydiving because he won something in the company, yet they don't off
The first stage is a discussion with the manager, covering three main areas: solid coding principles, unit and integration testing, and cloud/DevOps. This is more of a two-way discussion. The second stage involves a pair programming task with a sen
The introductory HR screen, where they discussed the company, seemed fine. However, the HR representative didn't appear very confident in judging what a software engineer actually is. They asked whether a developer can do what a software engineer doe
1 easy HackerRank, 2 technical rounds followed. They are a very cheap company. The offer was terrible: £40k and no RSUs. It's funny how they kept showing a video of a guy who went skydiving because he won something in the company, yet they don't off
The first stage is a discussion with the manager, covering three main areas: solid coding principles, unit and integration testing, and cloud/DevOps. This is more of a two-way discussion. The second stage involves a pair programming task with a sen