HackerRank

• WLB used to be good.
• Avg comp.
• Good if you're in the initial few years of your career because it's all intern-written code that has been in production till date.

• No innovation; it keeps copying what everyone else is doing while claiming to be a market leader.
• Everyone talks about the good culture, but it's all made up on social media. The new engineering leader is a micromanager, and the other manager, the so-called CXO, is a narcissist. I wish you luck if you're working for or under him. If you don't consistently clean up his messes, he will find other ways to exploit your growth in the company.

Also, the products he's trying to build are unusable and shallow in terms of engineering, while he thinks he's some revolutionary. Meanwhile, better, cheaper, and quality products are available in the market.

• The core product is the only revenue generator; everything else is just marketing to fit things in.
• Engineering culture has been on a downhill since some good leaders left.
• Overall, HackerRank's work culture prioritizes excessive work pressure for its own sake over employee welfare, creating an environment rife with stress, dissatisfaction, and disillusionment.

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