Lots of employee perks.
Beautiful office.
Amazing food.
Still a good chunk of smart people remaining at the company, though this is changing quickly.
Coworkers were really nice and generally had strong character.
Zero product direction -- the CEO has had lots of trouble strategically and has effectively stepped back from that role, meaning that no one with power over multiple orgs is steering the company.
High-level goals are dumped at the feet of inexperienced senior managers, who are then responsible for vague product goals ("more collaboration!") and can't translate them into a product roadmap.
Projects are often too safe, and amount to UI tweaks (a giant overhaul of the barely-used website, for example) or moonshot projects with no strategy or go-to-market that eventually die before reaching customers.
A recent de-emphasis on business/sales objectives in favor of shiny consumer toys, despite major strategic pitfalls.
Chart a course more concrete than "collaboration" or "the best place to get work done" -- something that directly translates into a product roadmap with a clear go-to-market and value proposition for customers.
Put customer problems first and business problems second.
Phone interview: The question was to find all duplicate files in a file system. Follow-up questions included: * What if files are large? * What if files are small? The interviewer was kind of indifferent.
A couple of phone screens, then a ton of on-site interviews in one day. Everyone was friendly, but the questions were hard. Since then, I've been on the other side of dozens of interviews, as the interviewer. One of the more common pitfalls is just
I applied through their careers page and was contacted. They sent me an online coding challenge to solve, and one week later, I was contacted for a 45-minute phone interview.
Phone interview: The question was to find all duplicate files in a file system. Follow-up questions included: * What if files are large? * What if files are small? The interviewer was kind of indifferent.
A couple of phone screens, then a ton of on-site interviews in one day. Everyone was friendly, but the questions were hard. Since then, I've been on the other side of dozens of interviews, as the interviewer. One of the more common pitfalls is just
I applied through their careers page and was contacted. They sent me an online coding challenge to solve, and one week later, I was contacted for a 45-minute phone interview.