Bad experience for software engineer
Bad experience for software engineer
- Can take good vacation
- Paternity leaves
- Nothing as such
They still work on 20-year-old technology. Only a handful of people get to play with new stuff like Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
Most of the folks are there from their university and haven't seen how the world outside works. So their view of distributed systems is so narrow.
They throw money at any problem to solve it. Hire contract workers to deal with state machines rather than actually solving for one.
Extremely extrovert-oriented place. You need to be "famous" in the firm to succeed.
- Listen to lateral hires; they have seen more services and more traffic. Your traffic is 2 qps, while your lateral hires handled 3000 qps.
- Respect and pay for talented folks.
- Stop pushing "get famous" advice for every 1-on-1.
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Software Engineer
The interview process involved a preliminary web-based round followed by a three-stage on-site interview. During the final stage, I felt the interviewers attempted to convey the prestige of working at the company and highlight their own accomplishme
Software Engineer
Initial phone screen. They asked questions on how to handle a situation where an important client was asking for confidential information. They also asked how I would handle a situation where a coworker was taking credit for work they did not do.
Software Engineer
Phone screening with the recruiter. Hackerrank: 2 medium-level LeetCode problems. CoderPad: 1 medium-level LeetCode problem with behavioral questions. Superday: 90 minutes, 3 interview rounds with an associate. (Yet to have this round)
Software Engineer
United KingdomSeptember 12, 2022The interview process involved a preliminary web-based round followed by a three-stage on-site interview. During the final stage, I felt the interviewers attempted to convey the prestige of working at the company and highlight their own accomplishme
Software Engineer
United StatesMay 13, 2020Initial phone screen. They asked questions on how to handle a situation where an important client was asking for confidential information. They also asked how I would handle a situation where a coworker was taking credit for work they did not do.
Software Engineer
Dallas, Texas, United StatesFebruary 1, 2022Phone screening with the recruiter. Hackerrank: 2 medium-level LeetCode problems. CoderPad: 1 medium-level LeetCode problem with behavioral questions. Superday: 90 minutes, 3 interview rounds with an associate. (Yet to have this round)
