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Senior Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Chegg for 1 year
November 22, 2016
New Delhi, Delhi
5.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros
  • No bureaucracy. Open communication.
  • Flexible timings. Flexibility to work from home if required.
  • No long coding nights. Deployment is well guarded by test cases at different levels.
  • Challenging product. Company is growing at a fast pace. It has made multiple acquisitions in the past few years globally.
  • Hybrid tech stack ranging from Java, Javascript, Python, PHP, MySQL, MongoDB, and many more. More than 25 tech stacks. If you're a guy who loves to explore new tech stacks, you will find Chegg a perfect home.
  • Code Hackathons to encourage creativity.
  • Knowledge sessions in the form of engineering Show and Tells, Developer Universities, and Roundtables to improve on your knowledge or showcase new ideas.
  • Greatest of engineers of all time in the global team. Chegg has engineers from big companies such as Paypal, eBay, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, and many more that I am not aware of.
  • Global teams are very helpful and try to communicate at odd times if required. We have people in overlapping timezones to ease communication as well.
  • New team setup in Delhi. This opens up a lot of possibilities in terms of culture and interpersonal growth.
Cons

You can make or break yourself. If you're just working like an everyday programmer and fear to take up challenges or make mistakes, then you may feel like rotting.

Overly complex code architecture, very, very large teams, hidden projects, lots of moving parts, and often difficult to get a bird's-eye view of aspects.

Processes can slow you down until you get used to them.

Advice to Management

More team outings, please :)

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