Not Great Anymore - Don't Be Fooled
Not Great Anymore - Don't Be Fooled
Had a great culture & employees with tons of passion for the mission.
Great mission.
Charismatic CEO & a strong performance/presentation culture.
They still use old employee photos and culture artifacts to lure new employees to a culture that is long gone.
Ongoing deferral of critical technical work in favor of short-term product features.
Repeated layoffs of highly trusted employees due to rash decision making and politics.
Rotating leadership with ever-diminishing empathy & increasing politics over time.
Consider cleaning house amongst the founders, rather than repeatedly purging trusted employees after working them close to burnout.
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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.
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I made it past the hiring manager screen to the full interview loop and was excited about the opportunity. Unfortunately, things went downhill from there. I was scheduled for three follow-up interviews, but all but one were cancelled, some at the la
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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
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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.
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San Francisco, California, United StatesJune 1, 2025I made it past the hiring manager screen to the full interview loop and was excited about the opportunity. Unfortunately, things went downhill from there. I was scheduled for three follow-up interviews, but all but one were cancelled, some at the la
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
