Stagnant Growth, Toxic Management
Stagnant Growth, Toxic Management
Employee signals help to remove toxic managers.
No growth, no learning, monolithic repos, boring inefficient work because of over-security (lockbox requirements). Most employees are forced to leave after 4+ years as their on-hire stock grant becomes zero.
Older employees (10+ years at Microsoft) control most of the company. They think about their own job security and growth and create competition among others.
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Software Engineer -2
1st round (online coding): * Given an array that contains both positive and negative integers, find the product of the maximum product subarray. * Sort an almost sorted array where only two elements are swapped. * Given an integer value and a pointe
Software Engineer -2
There were 3 rounds of technical interviews, focusing on LeetCode questions and concurrency. The LeetCode questions were Medium level, and there were many follow-up questions. The last round was a behavioral interview with the head of that product
Software Engineer -2
The phone screen included soft skill questions related to my previous experience. The onsite interview was mostly technical questions, starting with a warm-up like `strlen` and then moving to a system design question. The technical questions began w
Software Engineer -2
Hyderābād, Telangana, IndiaMarch 1, 20181st round (online coding): * Given an array that contains both positive and negative integers, find the product of the maximum product subarray. * Sort an almost sorted array where only two elements are swapped. * Given an integer value and a pointe
Software Engineer -2
Mountain View, California, United StatesOctober 1, 2024There were 3 rounds of technical interviews, focusing on LeetCode questions and concurrency. The LeetCode questions were Medium level, and there were many follow-up questions. The last round was a behavioral interview with the head of that product
Software Engineer -2
United StatesAugust 27, 2021The phone screen included soft skill questions related to my previous experience. The onsite interview was mostly technical questions, starting with a warm-up like `strlen` and then moving to a system design question. The technical questions began w
