Need more hands-on management
Need more hands-on management
Flexible schedule, very fair with family time off, above and beyond the contractual obligations.
Good opportunities if you know how to manage up. Relatively straightforward to move around between groups if you're competent.
Expect long hours; there are peaks and troughs, but it can be very long cycles. Currently working on a 3-4 year project with six-monthly release cycles, and the trough is one month out of six.
IT is very disorganized, with a disproportionate ratio of program and project managers, yet very little real planning happening. Lots of PowerPoint slides, very little execution.
Too much time in meetings.
Stop word-smithing PowerPoint slides and execute.
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It was fairly good and well organized. The team was very friendly and interactive. The interview process was smooth and finished the process in a week.
ML/AI Engineer
It was a one-round interview. It was predominantly on data science and large language models. They gave me a repo of an agent framework and asked me to find the code where reward is calculated.
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The first round was essentially a screening interview with the recruiter. We mostly discussed my resume, past experiences, and had a general conversation about the company and the role. The second round was more technical. It involved a deeper dive
Quality Assurance
San Jose, California, United StatesNovember 14, 2025It was fairly good and well organized. The team was very friendly and interactive. The interview process was smooth and finished the process in a week.
ML/AI Engineer
San Jose, California, United StatesOctober 24, 2025It was a one-round interview. It was predominantly on data science and large language models. They gave me a repo of an agent framework and asked me to find the code where reward is calculated.
ASIC Design Verification Engineer
San Jose, California, United StatesJuly 1, 2025The first round was essentially a screening interview with the recruiter. We mostly discussed my resume, past experiences, and had a general conversation about the company and the role. The second round was more technical. It involved a deeper dive
