If you're a good engineer, don't go here
If you're a good engineer, don't go here
- Massive benefits
- Huge name recognition in Canada
- Relatively easy interview process
- Decent code quality
- lots to be improved, but not a lot of huge WTFs
- Business is probably safe regardless of management failures because there's not a lot of good alternatives in Canada
- Employees are judged based on their identity, rather than work performance and knowledge.
- There is lots of performative woke culture.
My advice is that if you are a decent software engineer, and if you actively develop your skills and do not want to rot, you should not work here.
You won't listen anyway, but if you do: focus on business, not politics. Merit, not identity. Achievement, not office politics.
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took two weeks. The overall process was really nice. I had an initial screening call with a recruiter, and then after that, I proceeded to a Coderpad. The Coderpad was a one-hour straightforward qu
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London, Ontario, CanadaJanuary 7, 2022I applied through a recruiter. The process took four weeks. A technical recruiter initially reached out to me to schedule a brief call and see if I was interested in the role, and to ask a little bit about myself. This went well, and I was asked to
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Toronto, Ontario, CanadaMay 15, 2019I applied through an employee referral. The process took two weeks. The overall process was really nice. I had an initial screening call with a recruiter, and then after that, I proceeded to a Coderpad. The Coderpad was a one-hour straightforward qu
