Good work-life balance. Decent pay. Company has an employee-first policy.
The engineering talent pool is not great.
Lot of people are not doing any actual work.
There's an increasing pressure to build GenAI solutions, and in the rush to impress their leaders, many employees are losing sight of the actual business problems that need solving.
For GenAI initiatives, it's more effective to form a couple of dedicated tiger teams focused on solving real business problems.
These teams can then share their learnings with others, enabling scalable growth, rather than pushing everyone to work on GenAI without clear direction.
Interview process was fast. Questions asked included behavioral. * Print binary tree * Features that launched in different JDK versions * Design service discovery * Design finding an issue in a library in one of the layers of the service * Can you
I applied for a "Director". This wasn't an organizational leadership role, it's a glorified Tech Lead position wrapped in a shiny corporate bow. They use a standard, AI-generated template to advertise a role managing multiple teams and driving high-l
The worst. Surprise steps sprang up throughout the process. After five rounds, they threw a written test at me. I solved both questions asked, and they still rejected me for no apparent reason. Throughout the interview process, I saw people appearing
Interview process was fast. Questions asked included behavioral. * Print binary tree * Features that launched in different JDK versions * Design service discovery * Design finding an issue in a library in one of the layers of the service * Can you
I applied for a "Director". This wasn't an organizational leadership role, it's a glorified Tech Lead position wrapped in a shiny corporate bow. They use a standard, AI-generated template to advertise a role managing multiple teams and driving high-l
The worst. Surprise steps sprang up throughout the process. After five rounds, they threw a written test at me. I solved both questions asked, and they still rejected me for no apparent reason. Throughout the interview process, I saw people appearing