Drowning in Meetings, Saved by the Team
Drowning in Meetings, Saved by the Team
• Talented and friendly engineers who genuinely care about their work • Interesting technical challenges, especially at scale • Good compensation and benefits
- Meetings. So. Many. Meetings.
- Feels like process and ceremonies take priority over actual development.
- Too much bureaucracy slows down decision-making.
- Hard to feel impactful when work is spread thin across multiple initiatives.
Trust your engineers more and cut down on unnecessary meetings. Not everything needs a stand-up, a sync, a follow-up sync, and a retro. Let people build instead of just talking about building.
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The interview process includes one telephonic screen with the hiring manager. If that goes well, there is a loop interview with 4-5 people. The onsite interview focuses on design with a principal engineer, then product managers, engineering managers
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United StatesJanuary 30, 2016A very normal interview for a manager. The process included a phone screen, and in-person interviews with the manager, engineers, VP, and PM. I received an offer fairly soon afterward. The whole process took less than two weeks.
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