High salary, but overwhelming workload and poor management
High salary, but overwhelming workload and poor management
- Salary.
- Possibility to work from home.
- It is a big company that behaves like a startup, and you will do everything with crazy deadlines: coding, DevOps, QA, and support, which is 24/7 the whole week with often night and weekend calls.
- Management fires more and more people, replacing them with useless AI, and making people work overtime a lot for free.
- Some teams are working on four or even more projects.
- There is a very poor benefit system, which is basically only MS shares, with no multi-sport card and no mobile phone even when you are literally obliged to be on-call very often, so prepare to pay for it by yourself.
- There is almost zero work-life balance, and a lot of meetings are outside of work hours, e.g. starting at 18:00 or even 19:00 or later, while management pushes to make you participate in these meetings with no overtime compensation.
- Instead of coding, you will literally spend more than 60% solving internal bureaucracy, such as requesting endless access groups, trying to find contacts, running pointless procedures, and filling documents with no real value, so real coding time is like 5-10% at most in almost all teams.
- You are responsible and blamed for everything, and there is very little help from architects and managers, as architects are almost absent and don't really participate in many projects at all.
- There are very limited career options and a typical American policy, where they force you to perform a higher role but won't really promote you.
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I had an initial screening going over my resume and experience, followed by a technical screening. I was given two questions and one hour to complete it. They were fairly simple, easy-level LeetCode questions.
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Bucharest, București, RomaniaAugust 1, 2024I first had a recruiter interview, who was very nice and supportive. The second interview (technical, LeetCode style) was okay, maybe a LeetCode medium. However, the interviewer wasn't paying attention or answering my clarifications.
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Washington, United StatesApril 1, 2020I had an initial screening going over my resume and experience, followed by a technical screening. I was given two questions and one hour to complete it. They were fairly simple, easy-level LeetCode questions.
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United StatesJuly 7, 2018The process was efficient, straightforward, and easygoing. Interviewers had different personalities; some were more aggressive and, without regard for the answers, jumped between questions. Others were super friendly, asked great technical questions,
