A decent place to build a career with a high ceiling
A decent place to build a career with a high ceiling
- Hundreds of projects of various size and maturity.
- Each group is different; some feel like startups, and some feel like institutions.
- Very low friction for moving between teams or groups. Escape boredom or bad coworkers with ease.
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There's no standardization around compensation, level expectations, or interviews. Every group or team just does what they want, and they don't trust anyone else to be as discerning as they are.
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The enormous size of the company means there are a lot of layers of crap to break through if you want to be a rising star.
Standardize and centralize interviewing.
Make rewards based on earning "points" or something throughout the year, instead of a manager setting that stupid slider once or twice a year.
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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
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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.
