Stash

Senior Backend Engineer Interview Experience - New York, New York

September 1, 2017

Positive ExperienceGot Offer

Process

Call with Tom (Recruiter)

Provided guidance all along in the process.

Coding challenge

CRUD app with some variations
Lots of opportunity to show off your coding skills.

On-Site

Met with CTO, VP of Engineering, and two other engineers.
Smart folk.

Good office vibes. Good team.

Questions

NDA

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Stash Senior Backend Engineer role in New York, New York.

Success Rate

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Pass Rate

Stash's interview process for their Senior Backend Engineer roles in New York, New York is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

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Candidates reported having very good feelings for Stash's Senior Backend Engineer interview process in New York, New York.

Stash Work Experiences

decent

Software Engineer • Current Employee

February 24, 2025

Pros: Very good, and there is a decent amount of interesting work to do.

Cons: There is a lot of churn and shifting priorities. Morale is also pretty low.

Software Engineer • Current Employee

February 24, 2025

Pros: Very good, and there is a decent amount of interesting work to do.

Cons: There is a lot of churn and shifting priorities. Morale is also pretty low.

Still hope

Site Reliability Engineer • Former Employee

Pros: Fully remote; Competitive Pay; Good product; Interesting tech stack; Frontline management are good people leaders.

Cons: Executive management team trying to cut its way to growth. Decisions leading to tech debt are encouraged, and staff reductions are made to save money instead of fixing core tech cost issues. Quarterly cuts make it feel unstable, and there is a brain-drain of good staff leaving with low raises since cuts began.

Site Reliability Engineer • Former Employee

Pros: Fully remote; Competitive Pay; Good product; Interesting tech stack; Frontline management are good people leaders.

Cons: Executive management team trying to cut its way to growth. Decisions leading to tech debt are encouraged, and staff reductions are made to save money instead of fixing core tech cost issues. Quarterly cuts make it feel unstable, and there is a brain-drain of good staff leaving with low raises since cuts began.

Should be called Trash, not Stash

Staff Software Engineer • Former Employee

September 5, 2023

Pros: Remote - Unlimited PTO (kind of)

Cons: Engineering is a mess, with no mentorship, and it’s impossible to get anything shipped. They’ve done 4 rounds of layoffs, and the execs, except the CEO and unclear about CTO yet, are all coke-head idiots, and the company is destined to be stripped for parts. By any metric that you look at, it’s failing. The work is also extremely boring since they’re just treading water and throwing ideas at the wall hoping that they stick before they run out of cash. Stay away.

Should be called Trash, not Stash

Staff Software Engineer • Former Employee

September 5, 2023

Pros: Remote - Unlimited PTO (kind of)

Cons: Engineering is a mess, with no mentorship, and it’s impossible to get anything shipped. They’ve done 4 rounds of layoffs, and the execs, except the CEO and unclear about CTO yet, are all coke-head idiots, and the company is destined to be stripped for parts. By any metric that you look at, it’s failing. The work is also extremely boring since they’re just treading water and throwing ideas at the wall hoping that they stick before they run out of cash. Stay away.

decent

Software Engineer • Current Employee

February 24, 2025

Pros: Very good, and there is a decent amount of interesting work to do.

Cons: There is a lot of churn and shifting priorities. Morale is also pretty low.

3.0
decent
Software Engineer • Current Employee
New York, NY
February 24, 2025
Pros: Very good, and there is a decent amount of interesting work to do.
Cons: There is a lot of churn and shifting priorities. Morale is also pretty low.

Still hope

Site Reliability Engineer • Former Employee

Pros: Fully remote; Competitive Pay; Good product; Interesting tech stack; Frontline management are good people leaders.

Cons: Executive management team trying to cut its way to growth. Decisions leading to tech debt are encouraged, and staff reductions are made to save money instead of fixing core tech cost issues. Quarterly cuts make it feel unstable, and there is a brain-drain of good staff leaving with low raises since cuts began.

4.0
Still hope
Site Reliability Engineer • Former Employee
July 11, 2024
Pros: Fully remote; Competitive Pay; Good product; Interesting tech stack; Frontline management are good people leaders.
Cons: Executive management team trying to cut its way to growth. Decisions leading to tech debt are encouraged, and staff reductions are made to save money instead of fixing core tech cost issues. Quarterly cuts make it feel unstable, and there is a brain-drain of good staff leaving with low raises since cuts began.

Should be called Trash, not Stash

Staff Software Engineer • Former Employee

September 5, 2023

Pros: Remote - Unlimited PTO (kind of)

Cons: Engineering is a mess, with no mentorship, and it’s impossible to get anything shipped. They’ve done 4 rounds of layoffs, and the execs, except the CEO and unclear about CTO yet, are all coke-head idiots, and the company is destined to be stripped for parts. By any metric that you look at, it’s failing. The work is also extremely boring since they’re just treading water and throwing ideas at the wall hoping that they stick before they run out of cash. Stay away.

1.0
Should be called Trash, not Stash
Staff Software Engineer • Former Employee
New York, NY
September 5, 2023
Pros: Remote - Unlimited PTO (kind of)
Cons: Engineering is a mess, with no mentorship, and it’s impossible to get anything shipped. They’ve done 4 rounds of layoffs, and the execs, except the CEO and unclear about CTO yet, are all coke-head idiots, and the company is destined to be stripped for parts. By any metric that you look at, it’s failing. The work is also extremely boring since they’re just treading water and throwing ideas at the wall hoping that they stick before they run out of cash. Stay away.

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