I think the pros and cons really depend on your team, but this is my experience:
If starting at mid/senior level, the culture is pretty sink-or-swim. You have to be ambitious to grow, as you don't get a lot of guidance.
Pay is not great if you live in a HCOL area.
401k could be better.
3 weeks of PTO is pretty low.
They got rid of the education reimbursement.
Pushing AI too hard with no acknowledgement of its harms (for example, harms to the environment, water scarcity, etc.).
When they added "Hardworking Company" to the company values, I rolled my eyes. The CEO and some leaders seem to pressure everyone to work too hard. If you don't have a good manager, you probably feel this pressure.
The company should make sure the CEO and leaders are respectful of people with families and encourage work-life balance.
4-hour interview, code pad. 1 question for debugging, 1 medium-level question, and 1 data structures question. A lot of interview stages: * Human resources * Online code interview * Live code review
The first interview was a behavioral interview. They ask about what you know about the company and what it does, and why you want to work there. Then, according to the interviewer, if you pass, you get an OA. Finally, there's an interview with the t
Decent interview, nice recruiter who was attentive and noted everything I said down. The only odd part was she kept harping about using Java for the OA when I told her multiple times I am comfortable using Java for at scale production, but for coding
4-hour interview, code pad. 1 question for debugging, 1 medium-level question, and 1 data structures question. A lot of interview stages: * Human resources * Online code interview * Live code review
The first interview was a behavioral interview. They ask about what you know about the company and what it does, and why you want to work there. Then, according to the interviewer, if you pass, you get an OA. Finally, there's an interview with the t
Decent interview, nice recruiter who was attentive and noted everything I said down. The only odd part was she kept harping about using Java for the OA when I told her multiple times I am comfortable using Java for at scale production, but for coding