Great place to work
Great place to work
You will be judged by your overall performance at the end of the year. If you contribute a lot, you will get a large bonus; a little, and you will get a small or no bonus.
You won't get credit for attendance.
Company's commitment to work/life balance is not rhetoric.
Lots of emails, distractions. Lots of overhead to ship product. Will move bigger, more important mountains, but will not move them as quickly. If a small company environment is what you crave, this is not the place for you.
Focus on day-to-day engineering and customer satisfaction, not necessarily "innovation". Chrome is not winning against IE because it is "innovative", but because it is faster, more reliable, and implements basic features well.
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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.
