Top team, mediocre culture, terrible management
Top team, mediocre culture, terrible management
- Guillermo (CEO) is the best.
- Ideas, passion, openness, and involvement.
- Good pay (base) and good benefits.
- Name/brand recognition in the world of front-end.
- Still very "flat".
In my experience, there's no management, only supervision. Your manager only cares about how much code you merge, issues you close, or how closely you follow orders. Unsurprisingly, this leads to terrible traits in the culture:
- Very individual-oriented. Little camaraderie. No one wants to get to know you or be "friends." Your value is your engineering output; relationships are built on admiration, otherwise you're disposable.
- Intense bro culture. Very few women and URMs. Prevalent drinking culture.
- Terrible hiring process. No interview training or minimum seniority at the company before you start interviewing. Very heavy selling once you have an offer, but once inside, there's little support to make the company work for you.
Promoting a top engineer doesn't make a good manager. Care about people, and people will care about you.
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Software Engineer
Spoke with a recruiter, who was not the nicest. The hiring manager was super cool, though. The company seems very pretentious. I guess they are a big name in tech, but they had vibes that they thought they were FAANG level, which was a massive turn-o
Software Engineer
After the usual HR call, there was a live debugging round. It was a Golang program with bugs, and you had to act like you were doing a code review.
Software Engineer
Interesting interview process involving various levels of difficulty and different members of the team over a fairly short period. However, an interesting thing to note was that they did not seem hesitant to keep things moving where necessary.
Software Engineer
United StatesAugust 11, 2025Spoke with a recruiter, who was not the nicest. The hiring manager was super cool, though. The company seems very pretentious. I guess they are a big name in tech, but they had vibes that they thought they were FAANG level, which was a massive turn-o
Software Engineer
Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaAugust 11, 2025After the usual HR call, there was a live debugging round. It was a Golang program with bugs, and you had to act like you were doing a code review.
Software Engineer
United KingdomSeptember 20, 2024Interesting interview process involving various levels of difficulty and different members of the team over a fairly short period. However, an interesting thing to note was that they did not seem hesitant to keep things moving where necessary.
