What was once a great company has turned into an AI Slop fiasco
What was once a great company has turned into an AI Slop fiasco
- lots of ownership
- decent middle management
- great teammates
- learning a lot
- older employees do tend to have competitive RSU grants and salaries
- Tons of legacy systems (10+ years version of Ruby on Rails... 10+ years since some products or services were updated, 0 associated automation to help)- Last 2y of leadership has brought on tons of reorgs & changes. Example - recommended PTO days quietly went down, got rid of lots of free snacks, anniversary gifts went down $100s of dollars, plenty of silent layoffs- Senior leadership is focused on 1 thing - getting the stock price up. Has no interest in supporting some of our legacy systems that can prop up new products.- New hires are not fitting into our culture. Inflated titles. Empire building. Awarded for submitting buggy AI slop code. Encourage working on the weekends. Starting to get toxic.
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Applied online, first heard back about a week later. Had a phone screen with a recruiter to go over the general role and my background. After that, I met with the hiring manager in another generally focused interview. There was a take home code exerc
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The interview process was really straightforward. It went from having a first introductory call with HR, to having an interview with the hiring manager and team members, to having an engineering interview and an interview with business. The intervie
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IndiaJune 6, 2023Following the initial interview call, during which they elaborated on the job details, I have not received any subsequent messages from them despite my persistent efforts to follow up and seek clarification on the matter.
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New York, New YorkJune 1, 2017Applied online, first heard back about a week later. Had a phone screen with a recruiter to go over the general role and my background. After that, I met with the hiring manager in another generally focused interview. There was a take home code exerc
Senior Software Engineer
United StatesJune 1, 2018The interview process was really straightforward. It went from having a first introductory call with HR, to having an interview with the hiring manager and team members, to having an engineering interview and an interview with business. The intervie
