How is the Carta's engineering culture? Are they part of GCP or AWS or Azure or own? What is their techstack look like? Any hard tech problems are they solving? #carta #cartax #culture #engineering #swe
When I spoke with the HM there, their culture seems to be a quite garbage.
Could you elaborate.
Nothing to elaborate other than the conversation with the HM was just so unpleasant.
Avoid the company its a mess
Bad signals when i interviewed there.
elaborate
Surprised to hear all the negative feedback but the culture is pretty good. We did alot of hiring in the past year so it could be from people who have only worked at the company remotely
All the negative feedback here seems to come from people from outside that know very little about us. Some said “got bad signals from interviewing”. Possibly didn’t clear the interview bar.
I accepted a job as a Senior SWE at Carta but I will say that my first HM call was super awkward. I didn't even want the job after that. Luckily the recruiters followed up and I got to talk to the rest of the team. Eventually realized that the HM was just super awkward and not actually a dick.
I taked to director as part of my initial interview. Director does not know what he wants. Simply babbling and i hope others are good
Which org? Which role did you interview for?
Worked here for a year and a half. Everyone is helpful. Code base is def shaky but it's improved in last two years and new projects are fine. Fast paced, difficult problems, you find the work and solve problems, get rewarded. Processes change frequently, there is a constant adoption and deprecation in HR tools. It's not boring. I do find people try to just generalize and say "code is shit" but this is the way you learn the most, if you can fix an existing legacy solution with tons of issues to a better one, you learn more than if you just built on top of a sandbox. Alot of stuff is "move fast and break things".
Break things on an enterprise app is a recipe for failure
If you can do it well, and not fuck up, it's a huge learning experience.
Worked here two years I would stay away if I were you. Long-term prospects are not good but if you just want a job to keep you comfortable and content for now it's alright. I wouldn't stay for a fulfilling career with our techstack. Culture is either absent or toxic unless you're in Delivery.
Why do you think long term prospects aren't good? Is it due to some teams or the org in a whole. I just accepted an offer for an IC role. So a little concerned about that.
@WUzS31 welcome! I am not in the company anymore but I can tell you, you won’t regret your decision. Carta is a great company. The only problem Carta has is not letting people go. Some people are there just chilling and doing nothing and keep spreading shit about them here in blind. Go with all positivity and have your own experience. I worked at Carta for 5 years and I can assure you those were the best years in my career. The only reason that made me left was I wasn’t learning much anymore and at the level I was it was very difficult to have a business reason to create opportunity for my next step. ICs don’t have this problem because there’s no cap of growth based on business needs. You will love the company.
Lol. I see @stonkers here is trying to convince everyone how great carta is. Henry Ward, you just blew your anonymity. Yeah, it got better in the last couple of years, but carta's culture is complete shit. CEO has control issues and doesn't give a crap about the current employees. Literally said he's solving for the future, and doesn't really care what current employees think about it. Benefits/base comp are subpar compared to other companies. Poor tech leadership, high attrition rates. The list goes on. If you work in business/sales it's going to be an easy ride for you. Engineering - stay away, shoot for FANG instead. I can elaborate in a higher level of detail on each of the points. I constantly feel cognitive dissonance while working here and it's astonishing how such a shitty engineering culture produced such a great product. Nevertheless, I am still working here because I believe that this is a rocket ship. Yeah, it sucks but at the end of the day, I am pretty certain that it will make money. Nobody said this would be easy. And yeah, the company vision is great. I am constantly reevaluating my position and trying to feel if I've reached my limits of sanity. My hope is that maybe after a year more carta will realize that keeping employees happy is of value. P.S HR also says they don't care about poor reviews on glassdoor or blind. That should be telling. Our chief people officer should be fired.
Are you still at Carta, cogdis?
How is cartas interview process. Do they still ask for home assignment first
My friend who is working there told me DO NOT JOIN the code is just shit and you would spend half of your day debugging to respond to errors reported by customers. Unless you are joining a new team with new codebase
Interesting...
I can confirm. However, it used to be much worse. I has improved a lot in the last two years.