Ambitious, hardworking, and helpful coworkers.
Beautiful campus and amenities.
Great pay considering you live in the Midwest, with large annual raises and bonuses.
Prior work experience not necessary to get the job.
Difficult to achieve and maintain a comfortable work/life balance.
Biannual feedback based employee ranking against a bell-curve, with low-ranked employees being worked out of the company, contributes to a stressful and competitive working environment.
A 1-year noncompete prevents you from leaving the company and working in the industry.
Phone, and then online assessment. The phone screening is super easy; just don't act weird or crazy. The online assessment is hard, as it involves algorithms and data structures, and they aren't messing around. But I think you can use pseudocode.
This too was a test. It tested your personality as well as your ability to answer arbitrary analogy problems that the ACT/SAT discarded less than 10 years ago. Please take a hint from people who make the ACT/SAT and do the same with this section.
Started with a conversation with an engineering manager for the phone screen. Then a skills assessment that took roughly 4 hours to complete. The process was overall clear, and expectations were clearly communicated.
Phone, and then online assessment. The phone screening is super easy; just don't act weird or crazy. The online assessment is hard, as it involves algorithms and data structures, and they aren't messing around. But I think you can use pseudocode.
This too was a test. It tested your personality as well as your ability to answer arbitrary analogy problems that the ACT/SAT discarded less than 10 years ago. Please take a hint from people who make the ACT/SAT and do the same with this section.
Started with a conversation with an engineering manager for the phone screen. Then a skills assessment that took roughly 4 hours to complete. The process was overall clear, and expectations were clearly communicated.