Growth Despite Toxic Management
Growth Despite Toxic Management
Personal growth is good. Meeting with a lot of interesting people, most of them very sharp. Good feeling about the great impact of daily work.
Malicious competitions between managers.
Poor performance review design. Secret annual "calibration" is the gas chamber for industry's best engineers.
Focus on the great company's traditional values and strengths.
Do not be tricked by any fancy, fantasy, or fashion terms, such as Big Data, No SQL, and Cloud.
Do your own homework. Do your own performance review. Finish your own commitments first so that your direct reports can align theirs to yours.
People first, Project second. Reorg third, Manager last!
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Senior Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET)
A third-party recruiter reached out regarding a contract role within a team in the Devices group. They scheduled a take-home test, followed by three rounds of interviews on Teams, and then released an offer for an 18-month contract.
Senior Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET)
The first was a telephone technical interview. Then, I was called onsite, which had three interviews.
Senior Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET)
One phone interview (around 20 minutes about general CS concepts). After passing that, they scheduled another on-site interview with four different people. That one lasted around 4 hours.
Senior Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET)
Seattle, Washington, United StatesJune 1, 2019A third-party recruiter reached out regarding a contract role within a team in the Devices group. They scheduled a take-home test, followed by three rounds of interviews on Teams, and then released an offer for an 18-month contract.
Senior Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET)
Seattle, Washington, United StatesAugust 14, 2012The first was a telephone technical interview. Then, I was called onsite, which had three interviews.
Senior Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET)
Seattle, Washington, United StatesJanuary 1, 2008One phone interview (around 20 minutes about general CS concepts). After passing that, they scheduled another on-site interview with four different people. That one lasted around 4 hours.
