I'm just not used to waking up in the morning feeling so consistently excited about going to work. Being surrounded by razor-sharp, hard-working people who are deeply invested (both emotionally and in terms of shares) in what they're working on is intoxicating.
Management is light touch, empowering people to make decisions, and it works. Releasing features and seeing how our >1.4m users and the press react is very motivating.
The company makes a real effort to look after its staff (and its customers) — there's a real focus on improving mental health all round. Really intelligent approach to remote work that works really well (eg all meeting rooms having video conferencing and a dial in by default).
Plus the option of a month's unpaid leave each year, cute dogs, fancy coffee machine, yoga in the office on Thursdays are available.
It takes over your brain.
Keeping boundaries is hard.
I applied online. The process took four weeks. - An introductory phone call giving me a chance to ask questions and testing my technical knowledge and ability to say when I don't know the answer and then reason about what an answer might be. - A fol
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I sent in my CV, and I had a screen that was a call about my background and a series of questions just testing my general backend experience. I got given a take-home test, and I was told to spend a few hou
I applied online after reading a blog post and watching a tech video. I had been a customer of Monzo for a bit and loved the app and the card. There was a huge delay between applying and getting a response. Then there was another delay before the ini
I applied online. The process took four weeks. - An introductory phone call giving me a chance to ask questions and testing my technical knowledge and ability to say when I don't know the answer and then reason about what an answer might be. - A fol
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I sent in my CV, and I had a screen that was a call about my background and a series of questions just testing my general backend experience. I got given a take-home test, and I was told to spend a few hou
I applied online after reading a blog post and watching a tech video. I had been a customer of Monzo for a bit and loved the app and the card. There was a huge delay between applying and getting a response. Then there was another delay before the ini