It is what you make of it
It is what you make of it
It's far from perfect, but if you're dropped on the right team, this can be a great place to work. The tech stack is legacy, but evolving. The product is a core requirement to many companies, giving stability to the company and those performing well inside it.
Management pushed an "accomplishment based reviews" system, which just means you have to track everything you've done in a quarter and write that back to your manager for them to write "+1" or feed into an LLM and get your token cost of living raise. The pay is not great if you are not constantly jockeying for raises/promotions.
They've been pushing India and Canada hires hard, leaving teams with no managers or no ICs to work on their FedRAMP infrastructure.
They love building their own software, which is a con because FOSS and paid services accomplish the job way better, such as their self-built deployment and CI/CD systems, and costs dozens of engineers and SREs to run them.
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Senior Software Engineer
Applied via LinkedIn, and a recruiter called two days later. I was impressed that the first contact was a conversation instead of a canned email. I had a technical phone screen and coding test; neither was taxing. I went on-site twice for interviews
Software Engineer
I applied online and had a phone interview with their chief architect. The conversation dove deep into identity management and my background. It went well, so I was brought in for an onsite interview. The onsite interview process was a nightmare! *
Software Engineer (Internship)
Excluding the OA, I had three rounds with four interviewers. * The first round was a basic phone screen. * The second round was a technical interview. * The third round had two parts: first a technical assessment, then a talk with the hiring m
Senior Software Engineer
San Francisco, California, United StatesSeptember 1, 2012Applied via LinkedIn, and a recruiter called two days later. I was impressed that the first contact was a conversation instead of a canned email. I had a technical phone screen and coding test; neither was taxing. I went on-site twice for interviews
Software Engineer
San Francisco, California, United StatesNovember 1, 2016I applied online and had a phone interview with their chief architect. The conversation dove deep into identity management and my background. It went well, so I was brought in for an onsite interview. The onsite interview process was a nightmare! *
Software Engineer (Internship)
San Francisco, California, United StatesOctober 1, 2023Excluding the OA, I had three rounds with four interviewers. * The first round was a basic phone screen. * The second round was a technical interview. * The third round had two parts: first a technical assessment, then a talk with the hiring m
