Good pay, generally good technical experience. Lots of ownership immediately.
Everything around the work.
Project management seems very poor, and you will get jerked around on deadlines. Our company's response to COVID-19 was embarrassing at best and dangerous at worst. Even with the new web transition, you will spend significant time working with extremely dated code in VB or MUMPS.
Worst is that management is extremely focused on deadlines, which leads to poor long-term decision-making. Often, new code feels slapped together, design discussions are entirely UI-focused, and architecture is ignored and suffers as a result. I've seen broken code pushed through by long-tenured developers just to hit development complete deadlines and inflate their metrics.
Treat your employees better. A nice campus is great, but no real work-from-home policy, black box raises/compensation, and poor messaging from HR is very demotivating.
Had to take an online assessment with a proctor from a third-party company (ProctorU). The online assessment contains four parts, which involve coding questions, speed math, and learning and using a made-up language. They test you on how correct and
I only made it through the first three steps: 1. A 20-30 minute personality test 2. A 30-minute phone interview with an engineer 3. A 3.5-4 hour long proctored assessment None of these steps were too difficult, but this was a major time sink. The r
They asked too many questions in the interview. Many of those questions seemed like they aren't related to the job description as well. I was anxious, but that added confusion on top of the anxiety. Decent interview.
Had to take an online assessment with a proctor from a third-party company (ProctorU). The online assessment contains four parts, which involve coding questions, speed math, and learning and using a made-up language. They test you on how correct and
I only made it through the first three steps: 1. A 20-30 minute personality test 2. A 30-minute phone interview with an engineer 3. A 3.5-4 hour long proctored assessment None of these steps were too difficult, but this was a major time sink. The r
They asked too many questions in the interview. Many of those questions seemed like they aren't related to the job description as well. I was anxious, but that added confusion on top of the anxiety. Decent interview.