Great people, fun challenges, great pay and benefits. A great place if you land in the right organization and management chain. It allows for relatively open internal lateral movement.
Product engineers/devs are put on regular 24/7 support rotations.
Teams are subject to relatively frequent reorgs and changes in direction.
A bad manager or management chain can stall your career pretty quickly.
Way too scorecard/dashboard driven. Many teams are held only to scorecards and work only towards scorecard status, regardless of the secondary negative impacts on products, support, employees, and customers.
There are too many things that are easily gameable on a scorecard (bug/release metrics), and too many things that can't be accurately quantified (impacts of bad design causing issues later). The threat of red scorecards and dashboards hangs over many decisions on the front lines.
Long interviews. Very good recruiters, but hard to get interviews if you are applying without a reference from an employee.
There were a total of 3 interviews, as I am an internal candidate. The first two interviews focused on data structures, and the third was about design. This totaled 3 hours. The data structure questions were related to graph theory and dynamic pro
I applied online. After three weeks, an HR person called me and set up a phone interview time. On that day, a technical person asked many questions related to Data Structures and Algorithms. At the end, they said my interview result was positive and
Long interviews. Very good recruiters, but hard to get interviews if you are applying without a reference from an employee.
There were a total of 3 interviews, as I am an internal candidate. The first two interviews focused on data structures, and the third was about design. This totaled 3 hours. The data structure questions were related to graph theory and dynamic pro
I applied online. After three weeks, an HR person called me and set up a phone interview time. On that day, a technical person asked many questions related to Data Structures and Algorithms. At the end, they said my interview result was positive and