Colleagues are still pretty nice.
Flexible vacation (rather than unlimited) still seems to be open enough to taking holidays past your contractual days.
Compensation is pretty good for the workload (depending on the team).
For the moment, it's probably still worth joining depending on how you land with your team, but benefits etc. have definitely been slowly slipping over the past 1-2 years.
Upper management in all sectors is obsessed with AI, and it's starting to creep into performance management where you're expected to use it or talk about it, or else you're not growing.
Generally tiresome US-focus and Kool-Aid vibes, which has always been present.
Engineers are not compensated separately for on-call unless you're in France (due to legal requirement).
Quite restrictive on employees showing any support for Palestine, even in dedicated Slack channel communities, through communication "guardrails".
It started with the 3-hour take-home. This was actually pretty difficult and was a LeetCode question in disguise as a JSON manipulation problem, despite them saying they don't like LeetCode problems. I'd say it was equivalent to a LeetCode hard in te
I would never interview for this company again. Initially, I was disappointed when I received the rejection email. However, after going over the feedback, I was happy I didn't get through. It's a pure waste of time. All the questions you can find o
The interview was easy, and the interviewers were very friendly. It consisted of: * 1 coding interview * 2 system design interviews * 1 behavioral interview Most of these interviews just required discussions and asking questions; they were no
It started with the 3-hour take-home. This was actually pretty difficult and was a LeetCode question in disguise as a JSON manipulation problem, despite them saying they don't like LeetCode problems. I'd say it was equivalent to a LeetCode hard in te
I would never interview for this company again. Initially, I was disappointed when I received the rejection email. However, after going over the feedback, I was happy I didn't get through. It's a pure waste of time. All the questions you can find o
The interview was easy, and the interviewers were very friendly. It consisted of: * 1 coding interview * 2 system design interviews * 1 behavioral interview Most of these interviews just required discussions and asking questions; they were no