Challenging and not for everyone
Challenging and not for everyone
Great technology to work with. Fairly smart people. Great benefits. Appropriate working environment.
People are rewarded for visibility and an art of talking, rather than for real work.
Blame culture prevails despite an effort to "vanish" this behavior.
A lot of politics and intrigues.
Enterprise buzz and demagogism.
Extremely frequent reorgs and leadership changes.
Poor work-life balance.
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took one day. It was a four-round gauntlet with DSA, OOP, system design, and behavioral questions. The weird part is that you have behavioral questions mixed into each round, plus a dedicated behavioral rou
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Comfort zone: Description of what you work on. Problem-solving problems (e.g., merge linked list, implement LRU cache). Left 5 minutes for open questions and high-level discussion on the product and role.
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The interviewer asked questions about my experience and the architecture that I had worked on, and how it could have been done better from the beginning. Then there were follow-up questions with more depth until I was unable to answer.
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Bucharest, Bucharest, RomaniaJune 12, 2026I applied through a recruiter. The process took one day. It was a four-round gauntlet with DSA, OOP, system design, and behavioral questions. The weird part is that you have behavioral questions mixed into each round, plus a dedicated behavioral rou
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Tel Aviv-Yafo, IsraelAugust 1, 2021Comfort zone: Description of what you work on. Problem-solving problems (e.g., merge linked list, implement LRU cache). Left 5 minutes for open questions and high-level discussion on the product and role.
Senior Software Engineer
October 8, 2026The interviewer asked questions about my experience and the architecture that I had worked on, and how it could have been done better from the beginning. Then there were follow-up questions with more depth until I was unable to answer.
