Huge opportunities for growth. I have complete agency in what I work on and what skills I focus on developing. Day-to-day is enjoyable and educational.
Most people are truly fantastic, but there is the occasional (rare) stereotypical over-entitled, overpaid engineer who doesn't know how to keep their petty complaints to themselves. The work environment itself is great, though.
Keep focus on constantly improving the important parts of culture – opportunities for learning and growth, flexibility to move around the company, etc. – over the unnecessary parts like go-karts and beer.
After a brief and pleasant phone screening interview, a 1:1 interview with the recruiter was scheduled, followed by a technical interview. The 1:1 was great; I felt that the company's approach to finding a good culture fit was very reassuring. It w
Exactly what they advertise it as. The first interview is mainly just asking lifestyle questions, nothing really technical unless you lead the conversation that way. This is alright if the interviewer is talkative. It can be very misleading, though;
So what went wrong? 1. Technical interviewer probably doesn’t know Java at the level expected to interview candidates. Why? Because when I asked him what kind of data structure I might expect as input for this example of data: `[['grapes', 1], ['ap
After a brief and pleasant phone screening interview, a 1:1 interview with the recruiter was scheduled, followed by a technical interview. The 1:1 was great; I felt that the company's approach to finding a good culture fit was very reassuring. It w
Exactly what they advertise it as. The first interview is mainly just asking lifestyle questions, nothing really technical unless you lead the conversation that way. This is alright if the interviewer is talkative. It can be very misleading, though;
So what went wrong? 1. Technical interviewer probably doesn’t know Java at the level expected to interview candidates. Why? Because when I asked him what kind of data structure I might expect as input for this example of data: `[['grapes', 1], ['ap