R&D work; great international engineering talent; OSS contributions and history of community driven design; working for a recognized brand and a startup with unicorn status; fair compensation and good local benefits;
There is completely delusional management on all levels, and it is a company that has nothing of value to offer and is slowly bled to death by the large hyperscalers.
There is a complete lack of even basic trust between management and engineering, alongside chaotic, frantic, and irrational attempts to pivot in the direction of markets with well-established leaders.
There is an absolute lack of sense of direction and purpose.
Desperate attempts to do a late IPO have been unsuccessful, and the only hope now is for a semi-decent buyout.
Consider other career options.
There was a call with a recruiter initially, followed by a quick call with a manager to assess values, where a very simple technical question was asked with a 1 sentence response, after which there were 2 technical interviews.
Multiple, well-structured interviews. They gave me an interesting algorithmic problem in the first interview. The technical was pretty well structured, real problems that you can hit during your daily work. There was a good discussion with the interv
It comprised of 5 rounds... First HR round, hiring manager round, 4 hr long technical assessment (nothing less than a headache), presentation round, Another round, HR round.. Then they say there are restructuring going on and redis is not doing well
There was a call with a recruiter initially, followed by a quick call with a manager to assess values, where a very simple technical question was asked with a 1 sentence response, after which there were 2 technical interviews.
Multiple, well-structured interviews. They gave me an interesting algorithmic problem in the first interview. The technical was pretty well structured, real problems that you can hit during your daily work. There was a good discussion with the interv
It comprised of 5 rounds... First HR round, hiring manager round, 4 hr long technical assessment (nothing less than a headache), presentation round, Another round, HR round.. Then they say there are restructuring going on and redis is not doing well