Hoping someone from Coursera can give opinion on the engineering culture and wlb. I’d be coming from Amazon so culture is the main reason i’m looking in the first place. My experience at Amazon you are expected to single handedly own projects end to end, which is good for engineering growth but it creates a culture where everyone is fending for their own deadlines and helping people is punished in performance reviews. I’ve found success only when i aggressively say no to any help requests and ignore slack messages, which is bad for my job satisfaction. How is team culture & collaboration?#swe #coursera TC: 🥜 but mainly looking because of culture not pay
Been here for a few years as well. The engineering culture is great in my opinion! And what's really important is that it starts with the leadership team. Almost every EM, director, VP is simply a true professional. In terms of wlb, I find it really good as well. The dev process is based on reason, not artificial deadlines. I've never had any issues with moving delivery dates, or taking a day off. Never seen anyone working weekends as well. But I do know that due to remote work and multiple offices across the globe sometimes it may feel the work never ends. The key in my opinion is setting the boundaries for yourself and not checking slack outside working hours. The biggest enemy of wlb is usually yourself :) overall, strongly recommend!
Does Coursera have a dedicated hiring team? Wife got reached out by an independent recruiter hiring for Coursera, it’s for a full-time role? Will it affect the TC in anyway? Is it common for Coursera to recruit through agencies?
Been here for a few years and I love it. My team’s great and i received a lot of help from everyone when I first joined. Crossteam collab is a bit of hit or miss, but I haven’t had any issues with collaboration within my team.
thanks! do you think its team dependent or company wide?
How is the infra team? I’m interviewing for applications architecture team