Fast Growth, Brutal Competition
Fast Growth, Brutal Competition
- Fast skill growth and high standards
- Interesting problems
- Excellent benefits
- Sabotage and brutal competition for credit.
- 50% of target bonus is only given to the top 60%; 100% of target bonus is only given to the top 10%.
- Major burnout culture.
- All focus is on short-term gains, leading to a chaotic scramble.
- Questionable stewardship within and between teams.
- Highly political environment.
- Heavy pressure on management from leadership, which is pushed down without any real vision.
- They basically took the Amazon values, made them worse and even more intense, but don't really live by those values.
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Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaJanuary 1, 2025I interviewed for SSE at Coupang. The interview experience was pretty decent, with good interaction with the recruiter and interview panels. I had a DSA and a Design round. Both rounds were scheduled back-to-back on the same day. Unfortunately, I was
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Seoul, South KoreaMay 1, 2024Recruiter call -> 1 tech interview -> 4 tech interview -> offer. Tech interviews are either algorithm or system design interviews. Interpreters can also join the interview if English is not the first language.
