Great benefits (medical, PTO, etc.) Flexible hours Lots of food options, free drinks, etc. All usually very good Smart people Open culture Great coworkers
It's still a big company. With that comes some of the big company downsides. Being smart politically can advance your career. If you keep your head down and just do a good job, it's less likely to be noticed.
For example, I see good engineers not going anywhere with their career even though they do good work, while I see average ones advance up the ranks if they make it a point to post in FYI for every feature they create.
You also have less of a chance to make an impact as a new hire, since you're more likely to work on existing features rather than new ones.
If you joined about a year ago, your stock grant was overvalued (by about 2x), so you're making a lot less than if you go to another company.
None of the cons are unexpected at a large company. If you're looking to work for a larger, post-IPO company, then you're not going to do better anywhere else.
Applied through referral. Got a phone interview with 3 simple coding questions. Invited onsite for a 45-minute interview and a tour of the HQ campus. Received a phone call a week later.
I decided to do the phone interview onsite. The interviewer was friendly and helpful, and I solved the question fairly easily. My onsite interview included: * One behavioral question * Three coding rounds, each with two questions. Since I completed
I emailed the recruiter whose email I had from last year's internship interview. Probably due to the large amount of applicants, they kept losing my information and taking a very long time to get back to me. It took around 3 weeks to schedule a first
Applied through referral. Got a phone interview with 3 simple coding questions. Invited onsite for a 45-minute interview and a tour of the HQ campus. Received a phone call a week later.
I decided to do the phone interview onsite. The interviewer was friendly and helpful, and I solved the question fairly easily. My onsite interview included: * One behavioral question * Three coding rounds, each with two questions. Since I completed
I emailed the recruiter whose email I had from last year's internship interview. Probably due to the large amount of applicants, they kept losing my information and taking a very long time to get back to me. It took around 3 weeks to schedule a first