Get in, boost your CV, get out. Treat it as the 6th year of studies
Get in, boost your CV, get out. Treat it as the 6th year of studies
You get 3x more attention from recruiters. Salary in top 10% of employers. Free food.
Extreme competition among engineers (expect being compared with people doing overtime to get promoted).
Substandard designers and managers are just promoted engineers (so "manage yourself, I want to code"). Custom tech for everything (so most of the stuff you learn there, you will never use again).
Also, you feel like playing a game: rules are highly artificial, people are "mastering strategies" to get ahead, and nobody really cares about the product.
When you get in, learn the rules from someone who works there for 4+ years, and don't trust common sense.
You recruit excellent engineers. Now learn to recruit everything else.
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Poor coordination of times across different time zones. The interviewer was rude and only focused on coding skills, neglecting soft skills. Do not apply unless you are a genius.
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This was in 2020, so all interviews were fully virtual and each lasted 45 minutes. I understand that they were likely inundated with applicants and that 2020 was a difficult year for many, but more than half of the interviewers I spoke with barely bo
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Technical phone screen. I was asked to create a custom data structure to tackle the question presented. I explored several ways to create this structure, but my interviewer did not offer much assistance when I became stuck. Eventually, I solved the
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Edmonton, Alberta, CanadaSeptember 1, 2021Poor coordination of times across different time zones. The interviewer was rude and only focused on coding skills, neglecting soft skills. Do not apply unless you are a genius.
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United StatesJanuary 26, 2021This was in 2020, so all interviews were fully virtual and each lasted 45 minutes. I understand that they were likely inundated with applicants and that 2020 was a difficult year for many, but more than half of the interviewers I spoke with barely bo
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United StatesApril 6, 2019Technical phone screen. I was asked to create a custom data structure to tackle the question presented. I explored several ways to create this structure, but my interviewer did not offer much assistance when I became stuck. Eventually, I solved the
