About a 50/50 chance of being put on a crap team.
The first team I was on was well organized and very helpful. The mindset was: if one of us fails, we all fail. It was easy to have fun and learn new things.
Fast forward to my next team. It was extremely unorganized, wasteful of time, while piling on the maximum workload. Then they threatened your job if you didn't complete 100% of it. No one was willing to help anyone.
The leads were absent 75% of the time. The senior dev was above answering junior and mid-level questions. There was zero knowledge transfer (it's a "figure out the job, tools, and resources on your own" situation, making anyone less productive than they could be). And it just overall took every ounce of fun out of the whole job. Once on a team, you have to stay with them for 1-2 years.
Great managers should train less effective managers.
First, a take-home coding question with a time limit. LeetCode easy, I think. After that, a three-hour session. The people I spoke to were not really talking with me and only asking minimal questions, expecting me to fill up the rest of the time talk
First assessment after passing the application phase: An online assessment for 80 minutes, after which a video describing how you would make your code optimal given extra time.
It was about half an hour long. He asked me to explain the question I had done in my test. Then, he did a slight change in that question and told me to explain my approach. He then started asking me about the projects I did. After I explained that to
First, a take-home coding question with a time limit. LeetCode easy, I think. After that, a three-hour session. The people I spoke to were not really talking with me and only asking minimal questions, expecting me to fill up the rest of the time talk
First assessment after passing the application phase: An online assessment for 80 minutes, after which a video describing how you would make your code optimal given extra time.
It was about half an hour long. He asked me to explain the question I had done in my test. Then, he did a slight change in that question and told me to explain my approach. He then started asking me about the projects I did. After I explained that to