I've been interviewing and it looks like Squarespace might be working out. I was pretty high on squarespace, I liked how diverse the team I talked to was and everyone was ready friendly. Comparatively the culture seems great compared to other places I am interviewing with (all the top companies besides FAANG, wanted to avoid them retracting and pipping. Failed G). The only company I have heard such good things about I'm interviewing with is Atlassian (Indeed didn't get back to me). Should I run with this? TC is slightly lower than my other offers and potential offers but it seems like a good workplace and I highly value WLB. Is there anything recent going on or am I missing anything? #engineering #software #swe
Ex-sqsp, the WLB is pretty good overall, although obv depends on team. They have nice offices if that matters to you. Growth can be a bit of a mixed bag but again it depends on your team and group. Worst thing was the TC but if that doesn’t matter to you then I say go for it.
Oh boy. You’re in a ride. Office politics reign supreme here
What org?
I'm not sure. I'm being teammatched for various backend roles
I heard Squarespace isn't as great as some employees make it out to be. It can be a bit toxic.
Yeah some employees make it toxic. Those typical category that want to get promoted making noise.. if that and pay cut doesn’t bother you, its not bad
Except the passive engineering culture and the mountains of tech debt.
Unfortunately, 40-60% of SQSP engineers fall in the toxic camp. And you can’t avoid them or else you will get bad grades for your “collaboration”.
That has not been my experience. People have been usually helpful and nice.
FWIW I have a friend at SS who says he really enjoys it. Did you cold apply there and Atlassian?
Yup, just cold applied via LinkedIn/greenhouse. Dm in a few months if you see my company title change lmao