Excellent people, awesome environment, and a variety of interesting problems
Excellent people, awesome environment, and a variety of interesting problems
The people I worked with were really friendly and smart.
There was a lot of free food and coffee, and I got involved in some fairly interesting problems after proving my usefulness.
They let you do what you want and pay you well without trying to take part of your soul.
When I was there, they also did a big Scrum workshop, which was good, I guess.
Parking was a little tight if you came in later, and they moved us around a little because they were growing/making space. But it wasn't a big deal.
Some of the problems I worked on were a bit tedious, and the codebase seemed very large and hard to navigate at times.
Hire more outside Ames? Not everyone wants to live there :)
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Four thorough interviews balanced testing my technical skill and gauging my fit for a specific team they were looking to hire for. I was interviewed by members of that team after the initial phone screening, which was a positive in my experience.
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Ames, Iowa, United StatesJanuary 1, 2017Four thorough interviews balanced testing my technical skill and gauging my fit for a specific team they were looking to hire for. I was interviewed by members of that team after the initial phone screening, which was a positive in my experience.
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