Went through Carta take home + onsite virtual rounds. 1. The Take home assignment is simple but very open ended. Luckily they're pretty lenient on what they expect as long as its working and well organized. 2. The on-site was mostly good - Interview with Staff SWE talking about systems design - Interview with PM (Product Manager), discussing cross team/org and customer impact + empathy - Interview with SWE culture fit - Interview with Hiring Manager (probably the worst hiring manger interview i've had to date) To elaborate, he just joined the call and didn't introduce himself, what he did or what team he worked on. Told me he had 0 questions for me. I proceeded to ask him questions for 15 minutes to gauge really important team/culture and manager fit and he gave mostly 1 word answers. At one point I asked what he does to level up the engineers he works with, and if he can give me specific examples of how he has recently helped engineers grow in their career. His response was, "I don't really do that I just show them the job description of the next level and try not to get in the way". - Interview discussing Take home project The recruiter reached back out and said they will most likely get me in at E4. I told them this is technically a step down for me since at my current company I am E5 equivalent. Feels like they're just trying to down level to save money. She said the only reason I wouldn't strongly be considered for E5 is because during my systems design I didn't talk about deployment tools (? they brought this up at the end of the interview round that was already 5 minutes over and I spoke clearly about deployment tooling, monitoring and CI/CD so not sure whatever that means). Nothing in writing yet but from what the recruiter said Base Salary: ~200k Stocks: 300-400k over 4 years Bonus: potential sign on bonus to make up for losses of leaving my unvested options on the table. Current TC: 180k / 6 YOE Not sure if I should die on the E5 hill or not. Every engineer I spoke with said promotions are a black box called the 'hiring committee'. #carta
Hey OP, sent you a DM
How long from on-site to result?
Few weeks because of team matching and they delayed while releasing the new brand.
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I wouldn't switch for a 20k jump tbh. Plus it's a bad time to join Carta - the equity is priced at a value prior to the market crash. You are better off working at a public company where the stock is priced low and will eventually recover (hopefully).
Even if you discount the RSU by 40%, it’s still 245k vs. 180k, not quite a 20k jump. Obviously it depends on if there is a better offer, but just saying.
Thanks. Tuns out I only got E4 for my systems design interview :shrug: