Toxic culture/environment
Toxic culture/environment
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They keep pushing 15 to 20% of people down to the bottom and manage them out—no PIP, just direct termination—every half. Everybody is so anxious that they keep pushing the bar higher, so you are never good enough but keep chasing. The manager has the biggest power; no matter how much work you do, they'll just say the impact or visibility is not enough and decide your rating.
Some teams have endless SEVs or alerts that feel like being on call 24/7. In some teams, you don't need to work after 5 PM, but you can't stop thinking or worrying about work—because finishing the planned roadmap is not enough now—so you open the laptop and find that everybody else is also working. In 2026, no one is writing a single line of code; we just talk to AI all day, and using AI is part of the performance evaluation. Now a one-month project is expected to be completed within one week due to AI assistance.
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I went through a phone screen with two coding questions, followed by a virtual onsite consisting of four rounds. The first two rounds were coding rounds, with two questions each. The remaining rounds covered system design and a behavioral interview
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Initial HR phone interview: * Introduced yourself. * Completed a small coding task. Second phone interview with a developer: * Engaged in a generic discussion about initial tasks. * Performed a coding task involving traversing a binary tre
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There was one OA and one working preferences form at first when the recruiter reached out to me. Following this were two onsite technical interviews, one after another. Finally, there was one behavioral onsite interview.
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Seattle, Washington, United StatesMay 1, 2025I went through a phone screen with two coding questions, followed by a virtual onsite consisting of four rounds. The first two rounds were coding rounds, with two questions each. The remaining rounds covered system design and a behavioral interview
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New York, New York, United StatesDecember 9, 2016Initial HR phone interview: * Introduced yourself. * Completed a small coding task. Second phone interview with a developer: * Engaged in a generic discussion about initial tasks. * Performed a coding task involving traversing a binary tre
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Menlo Park, California, United StatesMarch 2, 2025There was one OA and one working preferences form at first when the recruiter reached out to me. Following this were two onsite technical interviews, one after another. Finally, there was one behavioral onsite interview.
