Many promotion and raise opportunities if you do great work.
Many smart people to learn from.
The product is getting better and better.
Business is doing very well.
You will learn many interesting things about running a large website.
Company favors incremental changes with metrics and emphasizes speed to market.
Nearly impossible to do an overhaul of a major page or a component because it's so metrics-driven. But it does happen sometimes if the person pitching the idea is persuasive enough.
Related to the previous point, it's hard for designers and engineers to innovate and get the company to invest on various ideas, so they keep those to themselves. This is reflected by a low hackweek participation rate and low activities in the open-source community and local tech events.
Rejected in less than 24 hours, with no feedback. The email was "no-reply", with no one from human resources assigned. The process was extremely impersonal and clearly evaluated by Artificial Intelligence, with no human consideration.
I had an HR interview, followed by a technical interview. Although the role focused on frontend, the technical interview was heavily backend-oriented. This felt unexpected and misaligned with the job description and my expectations.
Technical interview: - The recruiter began explaining the role and its duties in more detail. - I was asked about my past experiences. - We hopped on a coding challenge on Coderpad. It wasn't too complex, but the recruiter helped me out a lot. - In
Rejected in less than 24 hours, with no feedback. The email was "no-reply", with no one from human resources assigned. The process was extremely impersonal and clearly evaluated by Artificial Intelligence, with no human consideration.
I had an HR interview, followed by a technical interview. Although the role focused on frontend, the technical interview was heavily backend-oriented. This felt unexpected and misaligned with the job description and my expectations.
Technical interview: - The recruiter began explaining the role and its duties in more detail. - I was asked about my past experiences. - We hopped on a coding challenge on Coderpad. It wasn't too complex, but the recruiter helped me out a lot. - In