Genuinely cares about gender and ethnic diversity, big strides in this area. Team is growing with new greenfield products to work on with new (100% AWS focused) tech stacks. Ability to work in a lot of different areas and move around teams if you want. Edinburgh taking on more interesting and high profile things now when it used to be quite limited after the acquisition.
Work life balance is good, working your 40 is fine, I've had managers push back on late meetings and tell juniors not to work silly hours when they see it. The unlimited holiday policy really is that, I've never had my manager say no. You have to go on-call, but you get a whole day back every time you are whether you have an incident or not. Management push hard for good comp changes; salary, bonus and shares have grown a lot for me every year.
It has its downsides like every "big" tech company, but most to me of those are focused around the company still being so US based, and not being so good at getting the teams working towards the same goals across four different engineering locations and lots of timezones.
This means some of the US principals and distinguished engineers can be really annoying because of this from not communicating well and early enough. Also less sure how to get to principal engineer grades here vs the US. It seems easier to move to engineering manager as team grows rather than get to principal.
Please get leadership to get rid of the many things that have low usage.
We never kill any useless product.
I applied via Linkedin and received an email from them the same day. I was scheduled and confirmed to have a meeting with a technical recruiter, but the recruiter never called me or canceled. I emailed him about it and got an autoresponder to resc
They like to bring candidates in for the tech screen, rather than do it over the phone. I was told I had the option of bringing my laptop to the interview, which I welcomed, as I hate coding on whiteboards. When I mentioned this to the interviewer,
Typical HR screener, then technical interview. I solved everything the interviewer asked for but maybe they had too many qualified candidates so I got the rejection the next day. Overall a waste of time.
I applied via Linkedin and received an email from them the same day. I was scheduled and confirmed to have a meeting with a technical recruiter, but the recruiter never called me or canceled. I emailed him about it and got an autoresponder to resc
They like to bring candidates in for the tech screen, rather than do it over the phone. I was told I had the option of bringing my laptop to the interview, which I welcomed, as I hate coding on whiteboards. When I mentioned this to the interviewer,
Typical HR screener, then technical interview. I solved everything the interviewer asked for but maybe they had too many qualified candidates so I got the rejection the next day. Overall a waste of time.