Good company going through challenging changes
Good company going through challenging changes
- Smart folks at all levels of the company to learn from and share with.
- A dynamic environment, which includes acquisitions and strategic changes, resulting in high impact, challenging projects and space to have a high impact on the business.
- Career growth opportunities, where great work is rewarded by promotions.
- Flexible hybrid or remote work and work hours.
- Closed culture: The process and work documentation culture is the opposite of companies that have a public handbook, such as GitLab. Everything is closed by default, and permissions owners are often reluctant to open things up. This creates silos and hinders cross-department collaboration.
- EPD/rest of business split: There is a major architectural flaw for a wannabe AI company. Engineering, Product, Design, and the business function as two companies within the company. Engineering time is exclusively spent on customer-facing work. As ISD and IT do not have the needed engineering excellence center, this leads to business functions not getting the engineering and tech support that they need to achieve the best business outcomes. It forces them to turn to a combination of enterprise SaaS tools and consulting. This default solution barely masks the underlying organisational and process defects and increases the bottom line.
- Cross-department frictions: A lack of transparency and empathy between departments leads to conflicts that slow down progress. It can also be hard to have radically candid relationships with some peers and senior leaders.
- Toxic management: While I haven't witnessed this in my own team or department, I have seen several instances of low performers not being given the care they need, and sometimes being protected by their managers due to being friends with them.
- Double speech: Company OKRs aim for being an elite AI company while salary bands were reduced to the fiftieth percentile. Median compensation will tend to bring median talent, not top talent. Besides, I observed a widespread title inflation practice as it's often the only way to fairly reward top performers.
- Employee satisfaction is the best fuel for growth and success. Senior leaders should lead by example more when it comes to fostering a more open, transparent, collaborative, high-performance collective and bringing down political walls and frictions.
- Develop and support tech culture in all business functions. CSQ sells an AI/data product but still struggles to be AI/data-driven internally.
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Very smooth. The technical and human sides were assessed. I met a whole range of future colleagues; all were very friendly. The recruiter was very quick to give transparent feedback. There were no surprises during the process; all was very clear and
Solutions Architect
Regarding the fourth round of interviews, there was a lack of communication. The hiring manager initially asked for a presentation and gave us five days to prepare for it. However, during the panel interview, he stated that a presentation was not req
Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET)
The interview process was fairly simple. There was a technical test, which had two simple coding exercises. Then, the technical round included basic testing-related questions, one coding question, and one automation exercise.
Software Engineering Manager
Paris, FranceJuly 1, 2020Very smooth. The technical and human sides were assessed. I met a whole range of future colleagues; all were very friendly. The recruiter was very quick to give transparent feedback. There were no surprises during the process; all was very clear and
Solutions Architect
Paris, FranceJuly 1, 2023Regarding the fourth round of interviews, there was a lack of communication. The hiring manager initially asked for a presentation and gave us five days to prepare for it. However, during the panel interview, he stated that a presentation was not req
Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET)
Barcelona, SpainJune 1, 2023The interview process was fairly simple. There was a technical test, which had two simple coding exercises. Then, the technical round included basic testing-related questions, one coding question, and one automation exercise.
