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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Senior Software Engineer
Recruiters were very punctual and conducted one round of interviews. A second interview round was scheduled after the initial screening with the recruiter. This company is a copycat of Amazon. Avoid if you hate their management style.
Senior Software Engineer
Full system design interview, lasting 3 hours with 3 people. No questions about work history or resume. Only design and coding are required. Used Codility. No questions about work history or resume. Only design and coding are required.
Senior Software Engineer
4 coding interviews: * 2 graph * 1 string * 1 DP Q&A about what I've done so far: 1. How did I test my recommendation engine before launching? 2. Deep dive into models that I implemented.
Senior Software Engineer
IndiaMarch 12, 2023Recruiters were very punctual and conducted one round of interviews. A second interview round was scheduled after the initial screening with the recruiter. This company is a copycat of Amazon. Avoid if you hate their management style.
Senior Software Engineer
Seoul, South KoreaJanuary 1, 2021Full system design interview, lasting 3 hours with 3 people. No questions about work history or resume. Only design and coding are required. Used Codility. No questions about work history or resume. Only design and coding are required.
Senior Software Engineer
Seoul, South KoreaSeptember 1, 20204 coding interviews: * 2 graph * 1 string * 1 DP Q&A about what I've done so far: 1. How did I test my recommendation engine before launching? 2. Deep dive into models that I implemented.
