Imagine working in Beirut
Imagine working in Beirut
Food. Lots of food and some beer.
Convenient to trains.
Did I mention food? Oh, yes, and the food.
Lots of food, which is great because you can't find the time to go home.
Nepotism, cronyism, a cold-blooded CTO with little talent and a huge ego, an HR Department that enables the maniacal CTO, a not-so-bright-rich-kid CEO more obsessed with interior design than managing his CTO, noisy, and endless hours of boring work.
Upper management is rotten to the core, so I cannot see how giving upper management advice would be of any use. Their parent company, Rakuten, should fire the CEO and CTO. That certainly would do no harm. Pick some random homeless person to be CEO and it would be an improvement. The street sweeper would make a better CTO.
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Brief phone screen, coding exercise, full-team interview process with technical questions. We got to meet with the team and see all different personalities and what their role was. There were a lot of very different interview questions, all challengi
Software Engineer
It was too easy. The coding test was online through Codility. The in-person interview didn't ask anything technical, but instead just a few generic questions you'd expect from any company. That should have been the first red flag to not join this co
Software Engineer
First, I took an online coding test. Then, I got an email to come in for an onsite interview. I met with four different interviewers from two teams (big data and user) and was extensively asked about projects as well as quizzed on some concepts. Ques
Software Engineer
Boston, Massachusetts, United StatesMarch 1, 2016Brief phone screen, coding exercise, full-team interview process with technical questions. We got to meet with the team and see all different personalities and what their role was. There were a lot of very different interview questions, all challengi
Software Engineer
Boston, Massachusetts, United StatesNovember 1, 2015It was too easy. The coding test was online through Codility. The in-person interview didn't ask anything technical, but instead just a few generic questions you'd expect from any company. That should have been the first red flag to not join this co
Software Engineer
Boston, Massachusetts, United StatesNovember 1, 2015First, I took an online coding test. Then, I got an email to come in for an onsite interview. I met with four different interviewers from two teams (big data and user) and was extensively asked about projects as well as quizzed on some concepts. Ques
