Good pay considering you can be fully remote. Interesting and challenging work. Quite a lot of autonomy, not too many meetings. Good internal technology and tooling.
Most employees are good at what they do, and hiring and promotions seem quite meritocratic. Travel opportunities for company and team events. Temporary mobility, although you need to have work authorization in the destination country and they do check that.
Unlimited PTO is a ruse. UK employees have 20 days holiday allowance per year (plus bank holidays), and taking more is strongly discouraged, although it depends on the manager and performance.
Very American culture: performance- and results-oriented, toxic positivity.
Engineers have to be on call one week out of four, which is tough if you have a life outside of work.
The company's recent choice to jump fully on the GenAI bandwagon is unpopular with many employees.
I applied through LinkedIn and received a response within a week. I was then asked to complete an online assessment. The time limit was quite short, and I made a mistake midway through that required some debugging. Unfortunately, that took up valuab
Two interviews: 1 Coding and 1 System Design. The coding question was Easy-Medium, with some follow-ups. You have to come prepared with code that can call a REST API to get the input data. Make sure to prepare system design topics in depth.
I failed the online assessment. They provided an online assessment with JSON data that needed to be converted to an aggregated format. Specific expected outputs were provided, and I had a mismatch with the expected result.
I applied through LinkedIn and received a response within a week. I was then asked to complete an online assessment. The time limit was quite short, and I made a mistake midway through that required some debugging. Unfortunately, that took up valuab
Two interviews: 1 Coding and 1 System Design. The coding question was Easy-Medium, with some follow-ups. You have to come prepared with code that can call a REST API to get the input data. Make sure to prepare system design topics in depth.
I failed the online assessment. They provided an online assessment with JSON data that needed to be converted to an aggregated format. Specific expected outputs were provided, and I had a mismatch with the expected result.