Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure Interview Experience - Santa Clara, California
Process
I was contacted by a Roku recruiter via LinkedIn. He connected me to the Director of Engineering, Web Development within two days.
While the recruiter was quite nice and motivating, the Director of Engineering was as cold as ice to me. I don't know why, but he sounded like he had biases from the first minute of our call.
He was fifteen minutes late for the phone call. He never gave me any feedback after I answered his questions. I'm sorry to say this, but he was like a robot. He wasn't even close to being 'nice'.
I assume I was overqualified for the job. He was probably looking for just a front-end developer.
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Roku Work Experiences
- 3.0Stable Job, Market ShrinkingSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Jose, California, United StatesDecember 7, 2022Pros: not fire too many people thereCons: The TV market is shrinking, so I don't think this company is going to grow.
- 4.0Growing exponentially, company and peopleSenior Data Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Jose, California, United StatesMay 14, 2021Pros: Agile - releases twice a week. Proactive individuals. Most of the projects are customer-facing. Each person is directly responsible and accountable for a project or feature. No politics, mostly. Cross-functional teams. Paid well with RSUs.Cons: Performance review does not exist. Medical insurance is pricey.
- 4.0Roku is a great place to work and make an impact, [which has been the] longest tenure in my career to dateDirector of Engineering • Current EmployeeSan Jose, California, United StatesJune 24, 2022Pros: Great people - smart, driven, friendly/personable, and helpful. Open and transparent, provides lots of context to employees. Light-weight processes, get stuff done without the politics. Great business model (all TV will be streamed, ad-supported content is tried and true, ecosystem allows partners to flourish and Roku to reap benefits of the subscription model as well). Engineering-driven culture - CEO is an engineer, company has hardware, embedded software, cloud/web, mobile, voice, audio, big data, AI/ML, and enterprise engineering. Having worked at large (100k+ employees), medium (10k+), small (100+), and micro-sized (start-up of 4) companies, Roku has been the best place to work. Excellent pay - cash is king!Cons: California RTO restrictions – need to lighten up. Not much opportunity for growth; people hired for a specific job. 10x company personnel growth makes it hard to maintain the culture.
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