Automation poorly valued
Automation poorly valued
I get to work a hybrid schedule between working from home and going to the office. My manager is brilliant and helps me a lot in assigning work and listening to me in regards to what needs to be done from an engineer perspective. The codebase I work on is well-maintained, and I like that we use GitHub for source control.
Automation Developers are part of an on-call rotation. For a week, we are taken away from our work to spend time deploying QA builds to our QA environments, which is something another team should handle. We also spend our time manually testing production because blockers disallow us from running automation against it. It feels like the IT department is stretched thin, and I'm working three to four different full-time jobs, which is really stressing me out.
At this point, it's actually a problem with money. There is no way to reorganize the team to make the most out of us because we are already stretched too thin. You need to invest in more teams and more people. And already, it feels like the developers are being paid the lowest in the area, so of course paying the developers we have more, so that we can live close to work without living on the streets, would be helpful for our mental health as well.
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Database Administrator
HR phone screening has some basic questions. Technical phone screening with the team and manager on Hangout. On campus with the whole team in one room. That's it. It was pretty smooth and depends on the requirement as well.
Software Engineer (Internship)
Online Coderbyte questions and multiple-choice questions were sent by email invitation. Coderbyte questions included access to a library to check syntax within the window. Be sure to avoid tabbing out or leaving the window, as it monitors activity.
Java Developer
That was a phone interview. The interviewers were not very nice or supportive. One of my questions to them was, "What version control system do you use?" They said, "We do not use any."
Database Administrator
Issaquah, Washington, United StatesFebruary 1, 2016HR phone screening has some basic questions. Technical phone screening with the team and manager on Hangout. On campus with the whole team in one room. That's it. It was pretty smooth and depends on the requirement as well.
Software Engineer (Internship)
Issaquah, Washington, United StatesApril 1, 2023Online Coderbyte questions and multiple-choice questions were sent by email invitation. Coderbyte questions included access to a library to check syntax within the window. Be sure to avoid tabbing out or leaving the window, as it monitors activity.
Java Developer
Issaquah, Washington, United StatesMarch 1, 2019That was a phone interview. The interviewers were not very nice or supportive. One of my questions to them was, "What version control system do you use?" They said, "We do not use any."
