Chill Vibe, Low Talent
Chill Vibe, Low Talent
Pretty lackadaisical company with not much direction.
If you want to chill, this is the place to be. The company is relatively positive in terms of work culture and balance.
The engineering talent bar is very low, and promotions are entirely political, with tons of visibility bias. This leads to people being promoted to staff/senior positions who aren't very competent. Leadership also doesn't really know what they want to do, changing directions every three months. This leads to churn and burnout from engineers. There's lots of fake, toxic positivity from the top down.
Commit to a decision, see it through, analyze, and iterate instead of building something for three months and then abandoning it.
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Phone screen consisting of a paired coding session followed by an interview with the hiring manager. Second (final) round consisted of 4 panel (pair) interviews: two behavioral, one system design, and one additional coding.
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Waste of time. The recruiter seemed out of her depth, and the team didn't appear to have a connection to the larger, overall mission. There was a lot of autonomy but very little strategic direction. The "staff" engineer who interviewed me seemed i
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I was contacted for an interview, and it was scheduled. Before the interview time, the recruiter canceled it only two hours beforehand without giving any reason. I even contacted them asking why, but received no reply. Incredibly unprofessional.
Senior Engineer
New York, New York, United StatesSeptember 1, 2020Phone screen consisting of a paired coding session followed by an interview with the hiring manager. Second (final) round consisted of 4 panel (pair) interviews: two behavioral, one system design, and one additional coding.
Senior Engineer
New York, New York, United StatesJuly 1, 2020Waste of time. The recruiter seemed out of her depth, and the team didn't appear to have a connection to the larger, overall mission. There was a lot of autonomy but very little strategic direction. The "staff" engineer who interviewed me seemed i
Senior Engineer
EgyptMay 15, 2020I was contacted for an interview, and it was scheduled. Before the interview time, the recruiter canceled it only two hours beforehand without giving any reason. I even contacted them asking why, but received no reply. Incredibly unprofessional.
