Potentially high impact and opportunity to work with talented engineers.
Politics here and there, especially after the layoff in 2023. Managers in higher-cost regions like SG held back much more resources and tended to edge out engineers in lower-cost regions like ID, MY, VN. They did this in a very obvious way to prevent giving impactful opportunities to engineers residing in those areas, while keeping influence in their own hands and also not giving too much career support to those engineers.
Work-life balance is terrible for certain teams where managers do not evaluate the bandwidth of the teams and always assume team members can work overtime. They tend to please upper management while giving absurdly intense pressure on ICs.
The interviewer treated the interview as an ego exercise, where they seemed to need the candidate to be deficient so they could feel strong. I solved the DSA problem in one go but wasn't allowed to run it to debug and validate test cases until I ran
Interview Process: * Phone Screening * Coding Test * System Design + Data Structure Design The process starts with a phone screen, followed by a coding test, then system design/data structure interviews. The culture fit round was not part of my exp
It was smooth, but the expectation is a lot. They pay an average salary and expect top-tier developers. If you pay average, you should expect an average developer only. If you want the best, pay the best.
The interviewer treated the interview as an ego exercise, where they seemed to need the candidate to be deficient so they could feel strong. I solved the DSA problem in one go but wasn't allowed to run it to debug and validate test cases until I ran
Interview Process: * Phone Screening * Coding Test * System Design + Data Structure Design The process starts with a phone screen, followed by a coding test, then system design/data structure interviews. The culture fit round was not part of my exp
It was smooth, but the expectation is a lot. They pay an average salary and expect top-tier developers. If you pay average, you should expect an average developer only. If you want the best, pay the best.