Good perks, smart coworkers, central location.
Little growth opportunities of any kind (technical, management, contacts, etc.), heavy bureaucracy, extreme wokeness, office politics. Whether you get interesting or boring work is pure luck.
LeetCode medium and hard problems, with a twist. I answered four rounds, plus a behavioral one where the interviewer was just checking off boxes. I accepted another offer because I didn't want to wait for team matching.
Applied through college recruiting. A week later, I received an email setting up three back-to-back technical phone interviews. The interviews were solid, focusing on algorithm-based questions and Big O analyses. The interviewers were very friendly
The interview process is hard to get in the first place and is even harder to pass once obtained. You can usually get an interview by receiving a referral; apart from that, it's difficult.
LeetCode medium and hard problems, with a twist. I answered four rounds, plus a behavioral one where the interviewer was just checking off boxes. I accepted another offer because I didn't want to wait for team matching.
Applied through college recruiting. A week later, I received an email setting up three back-to-back technical phone interviews. The interviews were solid, focusing on algorithm-based questions and Big O analyses. The interviewers were very friendly
The interview process is hard to get in the first place and is even harder to pass once obtained. You can usually get an interview by receiving a referral; apart from that, it's difficult.