Talking with a recruiter atm and wondering if it’s worth committing to a two hour technical screen. Position seems to be managing financial integration, BE primarily. How’s the tech stack? Good WLB? Process heavy or innovation focused? Blind tax: TC 220k
How’s Carta?
It’s pretty nice, good WLB and good engineering culture (so long as you aren’t on a team working in the monolith). Product is a mess but isn’t it always; easy to get into a doomer mindset if you can’t separate your work from your personal emotions.
Overall it's okay. Not what it once was. Minimal upside at the quoted stock price and pretty far from ipo. Wlb largely depends on team but overall 18 holidays plus at least 4 weeks PTO is expected (some people take way more). The best thing here are the people, they really are great, low ego and smart as shit (I feel dumb here). Integrations is the salt mines though id avoid it, on call is brutal on those teams.
can confirm, my first oncall week ended up with 2 mid night pages and sevs 😂😂
Thanks for the context! Same sorta situation at Carta with the equity. Sucks to hear about the on call bit. Biggest upside to Carta imo is how chill our on call generally is. Never been paged once after hours
Based on what you’ve said about life at Carta, I wouldn’t swap for Plaid. It’s going through a bumpy patch and can be very dysfunctional.
What’s the expected comp for a senior level eng? L5/E5 at a HCOL area? Any signon? Bonuses?
I only know model S or X plaid 😂