Solid Leadership, Brutal Middle Management
Solid Leadership, Brutal Middle Management
Startup perks, best tech, monitors, etc.
Awesome IT team, best I’ve ever worked with.
Free meals (and high quality).
Middle management is very inexperienced; developers were shoe-horned into management roles where they were not nearly as effective.
Hours can be brutal and unnecessary.
HR is unfortunately "classic." I was lied to about job opportunities during hiring. Throughout my time there, I was misinformed, and I made the mistake of not getting everything in writing. I really hoped a startup would be less painful here than corporate, but it turned out worse.
Faire feels like it really wants to be Google, but to get there, they are burning out employees left and right and have policies fit for a company the size of Google, not a startup.
Focus on hiring better engineering managers!
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Senior Full Stack Developer
Applied online, had a phone screen with a recruiter, then a technical interview via CoderPad. Received a comprehensive prep guide focusing on graphs, topological sort (12 pages on Alien Dictionary), and basic data structures including "Arrays (unders
AI Platform Engineer
Applied through WaterlooWorks and got a 1-hour technical interview for Python Data. The interview included a LeetCode problem, which was around medium difficulty. The problem was something along the lines of traversing a 2D matrix in an efficient way
Software Engineer
The first round is a CodeSignal assessment. They will then have: * A first coding round. * A second coding round. * An HR round where they ask behavioral questions. * Finally, an offer call.
Senior Full Stack Developer
Waterloo, Ontario, CanadaNovember 1, 2025Applied online, had a phone screen with a recruiter, then a technical interview via CoderPad. Received a comprehensive prep guide focusing on graphs, topological sort (12 pages on Alien Dictionary), and basic data structures including "Arrays (unders
AI Platform Engineer
Waterloo, Ontario, CanadaMarch 1, 2025Applied through WaterlooWorks and got a 1-hour technical interview for Python Data. The interview included a LeetCode problem, which was around medium difficulty. The problem was something along the lines of traversing a 2D matrix in an efficient way
Software Engineer
Waterloo, Ontario, CanadaJune 25, 2024The first round is a CodeSignal assessment. They will then have: * A first coding round. * A second coding round. * An HR round where they ask behavioral questions. * Finally, an offer call.
