So I just finished a loop with Coupang for a Sr. data engineer in Seattle. About the company >> Coupang is korean Amazon .. due to restrictions Korean market is not open to outsiders so this company is growing like crazy. They opened up shop in seattle to absorb amazon & microsoft folks. And thats what you will find there. The people in Seattle office >> Like it or not, its full of amazon folks. It was a big turn off for me personally cos am sure they bring that culture with them as well. Some of the folks were actually rude in the panel. I guess working in amazon makes them superior human beings of some sort .. lol The office looked absolutely empty. Maybe bcos most of them work odd hours trying to keep overlap with Seoul, Korea. General telephonic round. What seemed weird was that they ask you to write spark code in telephonic & onsite rounds. Never seen any company do that. Onsite was 5 rounds , 1hr each. 30mins for lunch (kinda tight). They do most stuff in spark sql so lot of stress on sql & spark. Expect to write full spark code on white board. Overall not where I would look forward to work specially in Seattle market. I guess folks are hanging in there for the IPO .. i heard everyone in the panel bring that up .. haha ..
Data Engineer at Coupang is fine. Theyโll give you a high base and decent options but the company as a whole is difficult. Youโll be expected to work at night to sync with the Korea team and that can be challenging if you have a family. Itโs not worth it compared to a FAANG because their options are expected to be worth $15-$30 based on a 20bn to 30bn evaluation and a strike price of ~$2.00
Usually only principal level people coordinate and conference with people in Korea time.
They are not the Korean Amazon! They face many other ecommerce competitors and have low marketshare whereas Amazon is by far the most dominant ecommerce company in the us. Their financials are crap and won't ipo anywhere near the future. They always tell recruits that they are 1.5 years from ipo but that's been the lie for many years
The company revenue was over $4B. How can you say they are valued at $1B or $2B? Show me your math. Usually company valuation is about 4-5 times the revenue. But please, show me your math. All of South Korea use Coupang even more than eBay and there is no Amazon there.
Why do you want to move forward, salary is bad, options are useless, bonus will be close to zero. Vacation policy sucks, only 2 day sick time off.
good to know.
We are now offering cash value instead of Equity so if you decide you'd rather take the cash, we are more than happy to give you that. Coupang actually prefers you take the cash. But of course that is if you make the bar as it's very high.
Interviewed there two years ago. They were saying the same thing back then about the IPO. It is used quite a lot in Korea. I wouldn't suggest working for a Korean company the culture will be very different.
The culture is what the employees that are in the office make it. As more and more people join, the Mountain View office is getting more and more diverse. My team is diverse as they come and awesome to work with. It definitely has a good startup feel, but have have more than 6000+ worldwide.
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Coming from Samsung I doubt coupang is much different. Seat of power is in Korea and the real decision makers are often Koreans. You are another worker bee