Academic and without direction
Academic and without direction
Amazing benefits. Streamlined process. No politics.
No sense of overall direction. No sense of ownership of achievement. Makes you feel like a tiny cog in a giant machine. Thousands of genius engineers with nothing better to do than pick on each other.
Do some actual management of products and projects!
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SWE Intern
Fast, back-to-back purely technical interviews. Interviewers were very open to collaboration, and overall was an enjoyable process. All questions around LC medium with several follow-ups. Received offer three weeks later.
Software Engineer
There were phone calls with the recruiter at every stage, before and after the interviews. The first phone coding interview was conducted on Google Docs, followed by an onsite interview. The interview scheduling process was inefficient and slow, but
Software Engineer
The interviewer was very unprofessional. When I requested time to think, he couldn't stop talking. The questions he picked were very hard and advanced, requiring significant coding with advanced data structures. This approach isn't optimal for an int
SWE Intern
Waterloo, Ontario, CanadaJuly 1, 2024Fast, back-to-back purely technical interviews. Interviewers were very open to collaboration, and overall was an enjoyable process. All questions around LC medium with several follow-ups. Received offer three weeks later.
Software Engineer
Mountain View, California, United StatesNovember 1, 2017There were phone calls with the recruiter at every stage, before and after the interviews. The first phone coding interview was conducted on Google Docs, followed by an onsite interview. The interview scheduling process was inefficient and slow, but
Software Engineer
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, PolandJanuary 1, 2021The interviewer was very unprofessional. When I requested time to think, he couldn't stop talking. The questions he picked were very hard and advanced, requiring significant coding with advanced data structures. This approach isn't optimal for an int
