Free breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Pay is pretty good.
Well, you don’t die like in Squid Game; you’re just laid off.
Everything else
Condense sucks.
Unreadable code, written by those who don’t want to give their job away, so intentionally confusing.
Managers who were at the right place at the right time. Mine literally got LUCKY with right timing and very limited experience.
Directors even dumber — applied once every year for the past 20 years and finally made it into Meta. So they hold onto the role like there’s no tomorrow.
Colleagues, Squid Game-style competition.
Work is meaningless — like a piece of crap wrapped in sweet chocolate, so you only see the chocolate at first.
Stress cultures — if you’re not stressed, you will be second-hand stressed, oh yeah!
Everything is done with stress — it’s like replacing the coffee in the morning because coffee is free.
None of the projects here make any technical sense. 2+2=5 because John said so.
Get rid of directors who don’t have technical skills aligned.
When interviewing directors, please give them more than one round of technical interviews.
The interview process was structured but had some significant issues. Initially, they asked for scans of personal documents before even proceeding to the technical interviews, which felt unnecessary at such an early stage. I refused as it seemed poi
1 preliminary programming round, followed by role matching from HR due to the previous role being filled. Final rounds: 6 rounds (2 coding, 2 system design, 1 behavioral, 1 manager greeting).
A recruiter kept sending me ping emails every month or so. After several months, I responded with my canned "don't bother unless you can meet these criteria" message (things like relocation being a non-starter, salary and equity requirements, industr
The interview process was structured but had some significant issues. Initially, they asked for scans of personal documents before even proceeding to the technical interviews, which felt unnecessary at such an early stage. I refused as it seemed poi
1 preliminary programming round, followed by role matching from HR due to the previous role being filled. Final rounds: 6 rounds (2 coding, 2 system design, 1 behavioral, 1 manager greeting).
A recruiter kept sending me ping emails every month or so. After several months, I responded with my canned "don't bother unless you can meet these criteria" message (things like relocation being a non-starter, salary and equity requirements, industr