Good people, but the company needs to make some hard choices
Good people, but the company needs to make some hard choices
- Friendly, helpful people all around.
- A genuine desire to do new and innovative things.
- Decent mid to senior-level management.
- Top management is afraid to cut losses or innovate for the long term.
- The pace is a bit slow compared to FAANG companies.
- Internal tool sprawl is ridiculous.
- Budget processes are very broken, causing quarterly see-sawing.
Make room for big bets by announcing end-of-life commitment for any products that have been going for 5+ years but are barely breaking even (or losing).
Some of the ELT needs to retire and make room for someone who wants to grow the company rather than defend their turf.
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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.
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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
