Exciting startup, growing very fast
Exciting startup, growing very fast
Amenities:
- Modern equipment (laptops, monitors, sit/stand desks)
- New office building
- Catered meals 4 days a week
- Nice location in Potrero Hill
People & Environment:
- Employees skew very young (early/mid 20s)
- Good employee orgs/clubs (Latinx, running club, Pride, cooking)
- Company growth is exciting; people are happy to be here
- C-level management is approachable -- the company still feels informal
Growing pains:
- Frequent engineering org/team restructures
- Rushed onboarding period
- Workload high/not enough people to do the work (victim of our own success)
- Lots of time spent interviewing/recruiting
Becoming larger company:
- Lead engineer/manager quality varies from team to team
- More team coordination overhead and meetings
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Software Engineer III
A small handful of rounds will include a mix of technical and behavioral steps. These steps will feature: * Technical challenges * Systems design questions * Questions about previous and current experience
Machine Learning Engineer
The phone screen was just a LeetCode-style problem. I passed all except one test case. It was not related to ML. The interviewer was not from the team I was interviewing for.
Engineer
I applied online and a recruiter reached out the next day for a screening. Afterward, I had another phone screening with the hiring manager, who invited me to an onsite interview and sent me a case study. The first onsite interview involved many qu
Software Engineer III
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United StatesMay 1, 2023A small handful of rounds will include a mix of technical and behavioral steps. These steps will feature: * Technical challenges * Systems design questions * Questions about previous and current experience
Machine Learning Engineer
San Francisco, California, United StatesAugust 18, 2024The phone screen was just a LeetCode-style problem. I passed all except one test case. It was not related to ML. The interviewer was not from the team I was interviewing for.
Engineer
San Francisco, California, United StatesJanuary 1, 2019I applied online and a recruiter reached out the next day for a screening. Afterward, I had another phone screening with the hiring manager, who invited me to an onsite interview and sent me a case study. The first onsite interview involved many qu
