Toxic Feature Factory, blindly obsessed with AI
Toxic Feature Factory, blindly obsessed with AI
The compensation is the only good part of this job.
- headlong rush to shoehorn AI into everything, despite protests and very good reasons to avoid this.
- cutthroat quarterly review cycle.
- required "stack ranking" -- 15% of us must get "low performance".
- feature factory with no regard for tech debt or platform stability.
- individual bosses have an outsized influence on your ability to succeed and get promoted.
- middle management pushes foolish pet projects forward without regard to team capacity or best practices.
- morale is low, and management really doesn't care.
Retire. Let your employees do what they do best and get out of the way.
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Senior Software Engineer
Overall, I would give this interview process a 'meh'. I have conducted numerous interviews over my 10+ years of industry experience, including at companies of this size. The process is long, and you will likely feel strung along. To preface this, ev
Senior Software Engineer
It’s a long process that can be shortened to four, or at most five, interviews by combining some steps. However, they’re flexible with scheduling, so I was able to complete all interviews within 15 days. All the interviewers were kind and supportive
Senior Software Engineer
I had at least 10 interviews with this company spanning a period of 2 months. This included multiple coding rounds, multiple behavioral interviews with different stakeholders, and a system design interview. I was ghosted after this, despite multiple
Senior Software Engineer
San Francisco, California, United StatesAugust 4, 2025Overall, I would give this interview process a 'meh'. I have conducted numerous interviews over my 10+ years of industry experience, including at companies of this size. The process is long, and you will likely feel strung along. To preface this, ev
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TurkeyMarch 25, 2025It’s a long process that can be shortened to four, or at most five, interviews by combining some steps. However, they’re flexible with scheduling, so I was able to complete all interviews within 15 days. All the interviewers were kind and supportive
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Denver, Colorado, United StatesMarch 1, 2025I had at least 10 interviews with this company spanning a period of 2 months. This included multiple coding rounds, multiple behavioral interviews with different stakeholders, and a system design interview. I was ghosted after this, despite multiple
