Hello fellow blinders! I have an offer from Chewy for SDE 2: Very confusing comp structure, but comes out to ~257k. Base 150k, sign on 10k, 15% annual bonus, rest are stocks. I was bit shocked by the ratings, and reviews here. Team seemed very nice, and they seem to have a bigger scope. If you are a current chewy engineer, would like to hear your input. YOE = 5 TC = ~140 #chewy #swe #softwareengineer #software #engineering
don’t do it
Are you currently at Chewy?
yes
How was the interview?
System design was bit tricky. But coding rounds were leetcode style.
Wouldn’t recommend. People here are nice. Management is a joke. Engineering is a pretty big mess.
What they said ☝️
For Boston? Its a pretty good offer
Is it the same in Minneapolis?
Culture has improved a lot over the last couple of years. Much of the code has modernized as well (moved off of a monolithic code base to microservices and micro frontends)
LOL
…what code has modernized? Maybe stuff is in progress but there is a lot of legacy that exists, and it shows in the amount of incidents
275k seems too low for SDE II
It was not even 275k, it was 257k.
I declined the offer. It was for Seattle.
Why did you decline?
Do you have other offers?
Yes😊
Awesome, congratulations! I didn’t have other offers and joined chewy. Hoping it’ll not be too bad.
Chewy is a dumpster. The management came from old-school Amazon, and it's the same culture.