Chaos from the top
Chaos from the top
Great product, interesting work, valuable mission
The CEO has a deep mistrust of engineering and does not feel that they work hard enough, no matter how many features you ship or bugs you fix. If you are not visible in the office, you might as well not be working. Senior leadership is inexperienced and overreacts to trivial problems.
Trust your employees, thrash less, and focus on shipping quality software.
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Engineering Manager
Interview conducted in a super hot room with no circulation from 10:00 PM to 4:00 PM. Everyone of the interviewers was impersonal and typing on their computers the entire time. Not a great process to interview any candidate, let alone a Manager. N
Engineering Manager
I sent my resume online and received an email a few days later to set up a phone call with the CTO. We had a few missed connections, but we finally got to talk. I was then brought onsite for a three-person interview cycle. After a tour of the start
Engineering Manager
I had a 30-minute recruiter screen and a 60-minute HM interview, which was all behavioral questions. I did not make it past the HM interview. I got a default rejection email with no feedback.
Engineering Manager
San Francisco, California, United StatesMay 1, 2018Interview conducted in a super hot room with no circulation from 10:00 PM to 4:00 PM. Everyone of the interviewers was impersonal and typing on their computers the entire time. Not a great process to interview any candidate, let alone a Manager. N
Engineering Manager
San Francisco, California, United StatesApril 1, 2016I sent my resume online and received an email a few days later to set up a phone call with the CTO. We had a few missed connections, but we finally got to talk. I was then brought onsite for a three-person interview cycle. After a tour of the start
Engineering Manager
San Francisco, California, United StatesNovember 8, 2025I had a 30-minute recruiter screen and a 60-minute HM interview, which was all behavioral questions. I did not make it past the HM interview. I got a default rejection email with no feedback.
