Great product and an average market salary.
Culture and management:
Engineering culture and leadership is just terrible. It's a mix of dictatorship and micromanagement.
They claim that they want to hire talented engineers, but what they actually need is coding monkeys that do what they have been told and keep their professional opinions to themselves.
All technical decisions are made by people that don't even write code, and you are just forced to implement what they want, even though sometimes it doesn't make any sense. A lot of paperwork and bureaucracy, plus micromanagement, instead of actually delivering features.
They talk a lot about "Miro culture," being a team to win the world, but management doesn't value or ignore honest feedback and does nothing to actually improve, even a little bit, the existing 10-year-old terrible development process and engineering culture. Most of the engineering management/leadership lack soft skills/any sort of charisma.
Codebase:
Codebase is just a huge piece of legacy monolith that was under development for 10+ years without any code/architecture quality control/vision and is just a huge mess. No ownership for a lot of components, and a lot of critical parts are not covered by tests properly because no one cared (some still don't) about engineering practices. Most critical parts of the system are built with some proprietary framework that no one understands properly and is widely misused, which leads to even more mess.
Just avoid as much as you can. Don't waste your time.
Listen for feedback from your engineers and reevaluate who you put in charge of tech leadership/management positions.
The interview was quite challenging, but it provided a great opportunity to demonstrate my problem-solving skills. The live coding session was particularly engaging, allowing me to showcase my approach to coding under pressure.
They use Miro for every step of their interview. It would be better to create a couple of boards to get familiar with it before the interview. Otherwise, everything was similar to other firms.
After applying, I received a message stating that each of the five stages would take 7-10 business days. Around a month after this, I received a HackerRank test, on which I did not score perfectly. After another month, I received a rejection email.
The interview was quite challenging, but it provided a great opportunity to demonstrate my problem-solving skills. The live coding session was particularly engaging, allowing me to showcase my approach to coding under pressure.
They use Miro for every step of their interview. It would be better to create a couple of boards to get familiar with it before the interview. Otherwise, everything was similar to other firms.
After applying, I received a message stating that each of the five stages would take 7-10 business days. Around a month after this, I received a HackerRank test, on which I did not score perfectly. After another month, I received a rejection email.