Smart coworkers and great perks, but may have to fight for good projects
Smart coworkers and great perks, but may have to fight for good projects
You get to work with some of the smartest people around. You get to use awesome developer tools—everybody who leaves misses the tools.
Great perks: free food, gym onsite, etc. Very stable and secure job (even during COVID).
It will look good on your resume forever if you can get here! I'd say try to get in and work a few years to build your skillset, but if you don't get a good project, then move on.
So many smart and ambitious people want to do the Next Great Thing, that it can be hard to get a chance to work on a good project. Some people can get lost in the shuffle. It is a Big Company.
The interview to get in is a bit of a lottery-- lots of super smart people don't get in on the first try, or second try.
Area 120 and X are not enough to foster innovation.
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It was really good, and I had a really fun time trying to answer their very hard questions. It was a good learning time for me because I felt I could improve.
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It was a hard, long day of coding questions. It was hard to tell how I was doing. I was nervous and didn’t enjoy coding difficult problems under a short time constraint. The soft skills part was also hard to get a read on if I was doing well; the i
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Initial technical round, followed by an "on-site" consisting of four technical rounds and a behavioral round. The on-site is followed by team-matching, where you'll meet with managers of teams with openings to find the right fit for you.
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Chicago, Illinois, United StatesFebruary 28, 2025It was really good, and I had a really fun time trying to answer their very hard questions. It was a good learning time for me because I felt I could improve.
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Chicago, Illinois, United StatesJanuary 23, 2025It was a hard, long day of coding questions. It was hard to tell how I was doing. I was nervous and didn’t enjoy coding difficult problems under a short time constraint. The soft skills part was also hard to get a read on if I was doing well; the i
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Chicago, Illinois, United StatesOctober 1, 2024Initial technical round, followed by an "on-site" consisting of four technical rounds and a behavioral round. The on-site is followed by team-matching, where you'll meet with managers of teams with openings to find the right fit for you.
