Ambitious environment
Ambitious environment
- ambitious leadership trying to do a lot at once. This creates a lot of opportunities for growth both technically and in career ladder
- the engineers around me have always been fantastic
- I felt spread thin because doing too many things at once means lots of things are not done well, and direction continues to shift frequently.
Scope the number and size of projects so that the engineering team can execute and deliver exceptional results for them.
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October 6, 2019The employees were incredibly respectful and nice, but the CEO was megalomaniac. Before I arrived, I was sent a self-published article by the CEO on Shield's website to review. The article was about the questions that the CEO would ask during the int
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San Diego, California, United StatesApril 13, 2020I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I thought the interview process at Shield followed a more holistic approach as compared to the other companies I interviewed at which tested purely software skills. I interviewed for
