Shipping quality code at a sustainable pace
Shipping quality code at a sustainable pace
The code you write ships. Priorities are stable; you know what you'll be working on tomorrow. Good planning and high quality reduce crunch time and fires. A strong product management team does a great job defining and prioritizing work.
Two-year release cycle. Not-invented-here syndrome. Decade-old libraries and frameworks. The lack of modern architecture makes it difficult for high-skilled engineers to apply their knowledge.
The sustainable pace of development and stable priorities are big assets, continue to protect them. Customers may not care about decade-old technology and a home-grown stack, but engineers like to maintain their marketability.
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Senior Software Engineer
Applied with employee reference. Received a call from the recruiter to discuss my experience and the job profile. Received an email for a coding test on Codility.com, which I cleared with 100%. Received a call from the hiring manager, who asked qu
Senior Software Engineer
Unethical, unprofessional, and a cheap shop. This was the worst experience I've had in the last 16 years. I received a phone call from the manager without any prior notification from the recruiter. I asked to reschedule, and a week later, the recrui
Senior Software Engineer
The process was good and quick. I talked to recruiters Marissa and Victoria, and within a week, I was onsite for an interview. The onsite scrutiny was more interesting, wherein I was asked to either write or fix code such that tests passed.
Senior Software Engineer
Foster City, California, United StatesSeptember 1, 2017Applied with employee reference. Received a call from the recruiter to discuss my experience and the job profile. Received an email for a coding test on Codility.com, which I cleared with 100%. Received a call from the hiring manager, who asked qu
Senior Software Engineer
Foster City, California, United StatesMay 1, 2017Unethical, unprofessional, and a cheap shop. This was the worst experience I've had in the last 16 years. I received a phone call from the manager without any prior notification from the recruiter. I asked to reschedule, and a week later, the recrui
Senior Software Engineer
Foster City, California, United StatesDecember 20, 2016The process was good and quick. I talked to recruiters Marissa and Victoria, and within a week, I was onsite for an interview. The onsite scrutiny was more interesting, wherein I was asked to either write or fix code such that tests passed.
