Work/life balance doesn't exist. You start the day on Israeli time and finish deployment in the evening on Pacific time.
Engineering team is not valued – don’t expect positive feedback from management.
Management routinely sets unrealistic deadlines and changes priorities. As a result, new features are rushed into production without proper design, code reviews, coordination between teams, or testing. In the next development cycle, engineers spend a lot of time fixing bugs introduced in the previous cycle and fall further behind on the next tasks.
Compensation for long-time employees is significantly below market rate – annual raises are ridiculous. The C-suite is trying to save every penny on employees’ salaries. For example, the 2021-year inflation adjustment raise was announced in March… to be paid as part of next year’s January bonus!
Career growth in Waltham is near zero. A perfectly competent developer may wait 5–6 years for promotion from engineer III to senior engineer. Often the promotion comes without a salary increase.
Three quarters of recent hires in Engineering are on H-1B visas, most from the same country. This is the situation not just with individual contributors, but on many levels of management too. This allows the company to keep a high retention rate while keeping salaries low, setting harsh deadlines, and working people to exhaustion. Diversity is on the decline.
HR is occupied with getting various awards like the ‘best company to work for…’ and has no interest in retaining talent or making ZI a good place to work.
I had to complete a rapid-fire behavioral and IQ-style assessment. The platform they used gave me between 15 and 45 seconds to answer each brainteaser, then immediately moved on to the next one. For my coding challenge, I had to answer two LeetCode-
All the interviews were rushed. It seemed like everyone was working way too many hours.
A recruiter reached out to me with an open position, which I then applied to. The initial round was with the recruiter, followed by a technical screening with one of their developers. That screening involved a walkthrough of various technologies an
I had to complete a rapid-fire behavioral and IQ-style assessment. The platform they used gave me between 15 and 45 seconds to answer each brainteaser, then immediately moved on to the next one. For my coding challenge, I had to answer two LeetCode-
All the interviews were rushed. It seemed like everyone was working way too many hours.
A recruiter reached out to me with an open position, which I then applied to. The initial round was with the recruiter, followed by a technical screening with one of their developers. That screening involved a walkthrough of various technologies an