Great place to be employed; not so great place to work
Great place to be employed; not so great place to work
- High-impact products with millions of customers.
- Reasonable resource allocation.
- Reasonably easy to find opportunities on different teams.
- The process usually feels anti-agile.
- Project management is heavy and slow to respond to competition/opportunity.
- Discipline-based silos make it difficult to collaborate as a team.
- If you're not a "partner," you're a peon. It's real classism.
- The review process emphasizes competition with peers over team collaboration.
Quit dividing the world into PM/SDE/SDET and give your lower-level folks freer reign. Happily emulate the competition and support "20% time" to make things better from the bottom up.
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Software Design Engineer
There were many interviewers, each providing a few coding questions. They were not too easy, nor too difficult. It was very fair, and the interviewers were fun to talk with.
Software Design Engineer
1. My recruiter submitted my resume to the hiring manager. 2. The hiring manager scheduled an interview after receiving my resume two days prior. 3. The day after I got the interview, my recruiter informed me about feedback and the next steps in the
Software Design Engineer
The interview was filled with lots of programming questions. It was not nearly as challenging as Google's, which ultimately led me to the conclusion that I didn't want to work there. The folks who interviewed me were pretty friendly, though.
Software Design Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesJanuary 1, 2021There were many interviewers, each providing a few coding questions. They were not too easy, nor too difficult. It was very fair, and the interviewers were fun to talk with.
Software Design Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesOctober 1, 20151. My recruiter submitted my resume to the hiring manager. 2. The hiring manager scheduled an interview after receiving my resume two days prior. 3. The day after I got the interview, my recruiter informed me about feedback and the next steps in the
Software Design Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesJanuary 1, 2015The interview was filled with lots of programming questions. It was not nearly as challenging as Google's, which ultimately led me to the conclusion that I didn't want to work there. The folks who interviewed me were pretty friendly, though.
