Which companies are the best for building transferrable technical and domain knowledge for mid-level (1-3 yoe) software engineers? I'm looking at Brex, Chime, Coinbase, PayPal/Venmo, Plaid, Robinhood, Stripe, and Square as places to apply to. Which of these are known for hiring and developing the strongest software engineers? Which other places should I be looking at? My goal is to grow my career as much as possible, focused on raw hard and soft skills. Things I think that might help along this way would be smart coworkers, impactful/high-priority work, an ambitious company with high upside, and a collaborative culture with a growth mindset. TC: ~211k (depending on how you value ISOs) yoe: 2 work at: edtech startup #growth #fintech #question #brex #chime #coinbase #paypal #venmo #plaid #robinhood #stripe #square
is snacks code for something….??? what am i missing here
No, it's just a joke to dodge the question about why not FANG. The real answer is that this account is a sock and I currently work at G and have already worked at F. How do you feel about the engineering quality at Stripe? And which other consumer fintech companies have you heard good things about in terms of engineer quality and emphasis on engineering excellence?
what is consumer fintech? Pet my understanding, Brex is a 2B business
Plaid stripe and brex are still in hyper growth stages and would be great learning experiences. Plaid wins for culture and stripe wins for no leetcode in interviews. source: interviewed for all of them
interviewed for Brex and Stripe. I think Brex has great culture and also no leetcode question for on-site too. Not sure about Plaid, but Brex won in my case.
Plaid also has no LC in interviews. Same for Robinhood.
DM me if you’d like a referral at Brex - it’s a phenomenal place to work at. You can get a glimpse of the internals through the blog, articles about lots of topics from remote work to compensation: https://building.brex.com
Are there any platform-oriented roles available? What's currently posted mostly seems product focused (though there's an observability role that looks interesting as well). Would be looking for senior-level.
Hi! Can I DM you about Brex culture?
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Consumer fintech because the domain excites me and it's where I want to work long-term, at least from where I stand now. It's just what I'm passionate about. re: hedge fund/i-bank- I don't think I'll be motivated to work there. I'm already not motivated to grind Leetcode to get into one of those places. re: FANG - I don't like the office snacks at any of those four. The good ones always run out too fast. I've visited the offices of some of the companies I listed and their good office snacks are actually adequately stocked so I don't have to rush to get my go-to's before they run out and I'm left with kale chips.
Sounds like you'll love Robinhood Snacks.