Decent place to work
Decent place to work
Excellent benefits, lots of great people to work with. Extremely liberal organization.
Lots of politics and bureaucracy. Difficult to get anything done thanks to said bureaucracy. Pay is lower than the industry average, and they are proud of that. Extremely liberal organization.
Stop hiring senior management & senior level engineering positions from outside. Try promoting people instead. The promotion process is too difficult, and many employees are undervalued.
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Wikimedia Foundation Interview Experiences
Software Engineer
So, I talked with one senior recruiter at Wikimedia. She was very enthusiastic about her work, the company culture, and its values. She asked me about my working experience in PHP, Node.js, and HTML parsing. She told me I wasn't experienced enough,
Software Engineer
First meeting to get to know each other and check the cultural fit. Second technical meeting about pair programming and refactoring of existing code. Very nice experience in both interviews.
QA Manager
The position itself was very strange. They wanted someone to manage both test engineers and a team of technical writers and trainers. Luckily, I happen to have experience with both, so I applied. The first round was with a company recruiter who spen
Software Engineer
San Francisco, California, United StatesJuly 1, 2016So, I talked with one senior recruiter at Wikimedia. She was very enthusiastic about her work, the company culture, and its values. She asked me about my working experience in PHP, Node.js, and HTML parsing. She told me I wasn't experienced enough,
Software Engineer
BerlinSeptember 9, 2025First meeting to get to know each other and check the cultural fit. Second technical meeting about pair programming and refactoring of existing code. Very nice experience in both interviews.
QA Manager
United StatesMay 12, 2025The position itself was very strange. They wanted someone to manage both test engineers and a team of technical writers and trainers. Luckily, I happen to have experience with both, so I applied. The first round was with a company recruiter who spen
