Senior Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer
Work with the smartest people on the planet.
Great overall compensation package.
Opportunity for growth.
The size makes it challenging to go fast.
Seem to be in a perpetual "layoff cycle".
Have not completely shed the "ultra-competitive" peer-to-peer culture. That's old thinking.
Open space - nobody I've ever talked to likes it, and it's less productive.
Heading in the right direction with razor focus on Cloud.
Do, at most, three things very well. Do not dilute the brand.
Not everybody wants to be or is going to be a principal employee, and that's okay because the heart of the company's engine is in the senior band.
Admit that "open space" was/is a bad experiment and move on.
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Senior Software Engineer
Immediately, I was unable to reschedule and was forced to do the interview at their preferred time, even though it was very inconvenient for me. The first interview, the interviewer sabotaged me by not letting me solve the LeetCode question that req
Senior Software Engineer
Aptitude matters. Coding matters. Clean coding matters. Approach, more than answer, matters. Sometimes, the problem might just be puzzles. And more than solving, how you think about the solution matters more.
Senior Software Engineer
Very disappointed. One interviewer was from a different team (replacing another interviewer) and continued to ask questions on topics that were not very related to the position and that I am not familiar with.
Senior Software Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesMarch 1, 2025Immediately, I was unable to reschedule and was forced to do the interview at their preferred time, even though it was very inconvenient for me. The first interview, the interviewer sabotaged me by not letting me solve the LeetCode question that req
Senior Software Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesNovember 18, 2024Aptitude matters. Coding matters. Clean coding matters. Approach, more than answer, matters. Sometimes, the problem might just be puzzles. And more than solving, how you think about the solution matters more.
Senior Software Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesSeptember 29, 2024Very disappointed. One interviewer was from a different team (replacing another interviewer) and continued to ask questions on topics that were not very related to the position and that I am not familiar with.
