Companies are not your friends, but Discord has done okay by us (with the exception of the hiring boom of the pandemic and layoffs early 2024). I appreciate the ability to work remotely, and the flexibility and trust I am given to do my job well.
Discord also has pretty high internal transparency, including the good and the bad. Sometimes it can look like leadership is still figuring stuff out, but I'd rather know where we stand! And right now, we are on a clear path business-wise and leadership is leading with confidence.
Culture-wise, I love that my coworkers all care so much about the product we're building, and I can engage with them directly on any problems that arise. Even working remotely, everyone feels like a human.
Using Discord at work instead of email and Slack makes internal communication a bit messy. It's hard to find information sometimes.
Applied -> Recruiter -> HM -> Tech Screen. First three rounds went great, but the Tech Screen was a very different experience and felt very out of time with modern software interviewing practices.
Seemed pretty organized. The "resources" section told you that they would ask you to build a chat app using TCP clients. I did not have any practice or reading on it. During the interview, they did not want you looking at AI responses when you Google
A recruiter reached out after seeing my application. They had previously asked me to install Telnet on my system and about building a chat server using sockets. I did some background reading on that. I got the code working during the interview with s
Applied -> Recruiter -> HM -> Tech Screen. First three rounds went great, but the Tech Screen was a very different experience and felt very out of time with modern software interviewing practices.
Seemed pretty organized. The "resources" section told you that they would ask you to build a chat app using TCP clients. I did not have any practice or reading on it. During the interview, they did not want you looking at AI responses when you Google
A recruiter reached out after seeing my application. They had previously asked me to install Telnet on my system and about building a chat server using sockets. I did some background reading on that. I got the code working during the interview with s