It used to be the best place I've ever worked
It used to be the best place I've ever worked
- Great teammates.
- Line managers are usually great.
- Benefits: unlimited PTO, 6 months parental leave, great insurance.
- History of openness means that long-time employees are not shy about calling out bad decisions.
- Reorganizations happen at least once per year, leaving teams without direction for literal months.
- SLT is not held accountable for mistakes.
- The company claims to be a tech company but hasn't had a CTO in over a year without looking.
- Controversial changes are announced at the last minute and are usually half-baked (e.g., review process changes the week of reviews).
- SLT frequently denies reality despite written evidence (e.g., there is stack ranking, but leaders repeatedly deny it when confronted in all-hands meetings).
- There is still too much middle management, even after layoffs; many have no idea about reality "on the ground," and it really shows at the VP+ levels.
- Benefits are slowly being rolled back.
- Take some emotional intelligence training to better acknowledge and handle negative feedback.
- Quit trend chasing.
- Try to set goals for sustainable growth instead of constantly chasing the next 100x opportunity every 6 months. The company is too big for this nonsense.
- Give raises to the lowest-paid employees like CS and Trust & Safety. It isn't that much compared to your LLM bill, and these folks are the ones keeping things running.
- Fire sexual harassers, for goodness sake.
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Austin, Texas, United StatesAugust 1, 2021They contacted me. The interview went fine, and I got an offer. It was a typical LeetCode medium, covering system design, debugging, and behavioral questions. After receiving the offer, they acted badly when I tried to negotiate, so be careful.
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Austin, Texas, United StatesDecember 1, 2020The interview process consisted of around 6 hours of separate sessions. The breakdown is as follows: * **Timed ProGex:** Solve a problem on HackerRank via your preferred language (do not choose C# as the compiler is not up to date on HackerRank).
