Good Pay, Lacking Security
Good Pay, Lacking Security
The compensation packages for employees in the San Francisco Bay Area continue to be excellent.
The current senior leadership appears to believe that, within a given job ladder, employees are interchangeable cogs.
The lack of perceived (and actual) job security is an ongoing problem. Layoffs began in January 2023 and have continued through at least April 2024. Employees ask each other, "Are we going to be laid off?"
In the weeks after a team has been impacted by layoffs, the remaining employees receive no useful guidance about next steps. They must often wait a month or more to receive clarity about what they are expected to work on.
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Very long process. Prep is time-consuming: LeetCoding and Grokking the System Design Interview. Past experience is not valued much beyond the leadership part of the interview. Most interviewers were nice. I liked the team-matching part. Low offe
Staff Software Engineer
I went through 5 rounds of on-site interviews. The first 3 rounds went well, but the 4th round, a coding challenge regarding BST, was difficult. I implemented my initial solution and then wanted to tweak it to add another logic that was requested ori
Staff Software Engineer
Applied online. They skipped the phone interview. The interview on campus was moderately difficult and focused on system design problems. Received an offer in a week. They beat a competing offer from another popular large company.
Staff Software Engineer
United StatesDecember 1, 2022Very long process. Prep is time-consuming: LeetCoding and Grokking the System Design Interview. Past experience is not valued much beyond the leadership part of the interview. Most interviewers were nice. I liked the team-matching part. Low offe
Staff Software Engineer
United StatesMarch 24, 2022I went through 5 rounds of on-site interviews. The first 3 rounds went well, but the 4th round, a coding challenge regarding BST, was difficult. I implemented my initial solution and then wanted to tweak it to add another logic that was requested ori
Staff Software Engineer
Mountain View, California, United StatesSeptember 1, 2016Applied online. They skipped the phone interview. The interview on campus was moderately difficult and focused on system design problems. Received an offer in a week. They beat a competing offer from another popular large company.
