Starting to feel like a "big" company - still a great place to work
Starting to feel like a "big" company - still a great place to work
Standards are still quite high. Most colleagues are technically very skilled and collaborative.
Company culture is great. Lots of opportunities to have a meaningful impact.
Maybe an inevitable consequence of growth, but it's starting to feel like a "big" company, with all the attendant issues that brings: bureaucracy, insular departments, politics.
Company culture is suffering as a consequence.
Recently, the AI/ML platform has become scattered and incoherent, with a range of tools & systems that don't really work together the way they should. Focus on data warehousing has meant that AI/ML is getting less attention.
Focus on an excellent end-to-end experience across all parts of the platform.
Focus on maintaining an open and transparent company culture. Resist those who want to set up mini department-kingdoms within the company.
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Extremely unprofessional interviewer who worked on his own stuff the entire interview and deliberately didn't reveal the second part of the question. Attitude is bad and impatient. If you don't want to interview, just don't accept the interview. I'd
Software Engineer
The first part was the Technical Screen without OA. It was a standard graph problem, maybe like a Leetcode Medium. It was an hour total, and I had about 10 minutes at the end to ask my interviewers some questions.
Software Engineer
Data structure heavy questions (not the typical LeetCode) – you need to implement a class to perform certain operations. I was also asked some behavioral questions at the beginning, but I don't know whether this is standard.
Software Engineer
United StatesNovember 19, 2025Extremely unprofessional interviewer who worked on his own stuff the entire interview and deliberately didn't reveal the second part of the question. Attitude is bad and impatient. If you don't want to interview, just don't accept the interview. I'd
Software Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United StatesNovember 18, 2025The first part was the Technical Screen without OA. It was a standard graph problem, maybe like a Leetcode Medium. It was an hour total, and I had about 10 minutes at the end to ask my interviewers some questions.
Software Engineer
United StatesNovember 12, 2025Data structure heavy questions (not the typical LeetCode) – you need to implement a class to perform certain operations. I was also asked some behavioral questions at the beginning, but I don't know whether this is standard.
