The salary is acceptable. The campus is conveniently located. The benefits are adequate.
Generous combination of 401k matching, bonus, stock, and ESPP.
Parking is tight. Space in general is tight.
There is effectively no choice in health insurance, with Kaiser being the only HMO, and only one PPO and one CDHP plan.
Upper management is profoundly ignorant of its employees. Would you acquire a startup without at least talking to the most highly compensated workers in addition to the founders?
The HR/security/stock/accounting systems are disparate.
MS Exchange is the corporate email standard, with all the limitations that implies.
Several MILLION lines of Java are in the codebase, with no hope of changing.
The performance review process is from the '90s. Managers review their subordinates, full stop.
Bonus, stock, and ESPP are all on a protracted 7-14 month schedule, slow moving like everything else.
Carve off autonomous business/operating units, starting with recent acquisitions. Combine services only where the economy of scale makes sense from both sides. Never forget that sellers are your real customers, since they pay the fees.
Initial phone screen with HM, followed by an onsite interview with three rounds: * System Design * Coding * Behavioral It was an average interview, but they were looking for someone with strong Java experience.
After the initial recruiter screening, the first interview round was set up with one of the developers from the team. The first 10 minutes were for introductions, talking about the job role and my experience. Then, we started with an LC-style questio
I was invited to SWE Internship Power Day. It involved two back-to-back interviews. The questions covered a variety of topics, including LeetCode easy/medium problems and linked list questions. I used C++ for the coding portions.
Initial phone screen with HM, followed by an onsite interview with three rounds: * System Design * Coding * Behavioral It was an average interview, but they were looking for someone with strong Java experience.
After the initial recruiter screening, the first interview round was set up with one of the developers from the team. The first 10 minutes were for introductions, talking about the job role and my experience. Then, we started with an LC-style questio
I was invited to SWE Internship Power Day. It involved two back-to-back interviews. The questions covered a variety of topics, including LeetCode easy/medium problems and linked list questions. I used C++ for the coding portions.