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Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Grubhub for 1 year
May 10, 2018
New York, New York
4.0
RecommendsPositive Outlook
Pros

Food. The pantry is stocked with drinks, snacks, cereal, and more. Catered meals are provided on Fridays, and there's an $18 Grubhub stipend each week, which is about one meal. It would be nice to have another day's worth of food.

Meet new people during lunch; everyone eats together. Everyone is nice.

Work-life balance and a laid-back environment. I came from a dog-eat-dog environment with long work hours, and this is far from it.

There are women engineers, leads, and senior management, but the NY office needs more diversity! (I don't know much about the other branches.)

Paid conferences and a desire to have engineers present.

No issues with hardware, such as laptops, monitors, standing desks, or mice. If you need something, ask for it, and you'll have it within a couple of minutes.

Cons

Code reviews can be really meticulous, to a point that I think is ridiculous. This may not be a con for you, but the code is clean. I feel like that can still be achieved without this level of nitpicking.

Teams are siloed. I like to work on a breadth of problems, from ops to SRE to typical engineer work (startup environment). You won't do that here, but there is a set of tools to do what you may need. You can also propose a feature and offer to implement it yourself.

Hierarchical.

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