Great for now...
Great for now...
Lots of really cool tech. I can not imagine working anywhere as cool and potentially impactful. 16 weeks parental leave. Great IT department. Good but degrading culture.
Aggressive deadlines and schedules that sometimes don't feel real (then again sometimes we actually make progress faster than you would think possible).
The pay is middle of the road at best.
Take care of your people, times are tough but its only going to get worse if we loose talent. The turnover rate may be nominal but we lost a lot of good people in the last 6-12 months who didn't feel appreciated.
Sometimes its better to do the hard work and problem solving up front instead of kicking the can down the road.
We need to "have each others backs" more in the past 12 months or so people are spread more thin as deadlines are more real. As such we have lost a bit of the culture of understanding and willingness to help others. It is still there but has decreased by an order of magnitude. Reward those who go out of their way to help others and discourage blame games.
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I applied online. The interview process was fairly simple and straightforward. They asked me a few questions about myself and why I was interested in the position. After the initial screening, they jumped into a technical interview focused on mechan
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 days. There were a few questions with some difficulty. I had to answer lots of psychotechnical questions with engineering chemistry and physics. We discussed the position and its challenges
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April 11, 2025I applied through a recruiter. The process took two weeks. When I talked to a recruiter, I told him about my background and actually explicitly said, "I'm not an [X] expert, I'm much more of a generalist," and went on to describe my other fortes. I
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April 30, 2025I applied online. The interview process was fairly simple and straightforward. They asked me a few questions about myself and why I was interested in the position. After the initial screening, they jumped into a technical interview focused on mechan
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Milpitas, California, United StatesOctober 14, 2026I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 days. There were a few questions with some difficulty. I had to answer lots of psychotechnical questions with engineering chemistry and physics. We discussed the position and its challenges
