Applied for the server team, specifically devops. Passsed the system design. Onto second round and just looking for some more discussion on workload. Not looking to laze around but should I expect 60 hour weeks to be normal?
Do not come to skillz. This place sucks. Planning leave soon
Can you tell me more??
This place can be heaven or hell on earth. Nothing in between. If have to emotionally connect with people. Otherwise they suspect you all the time. Only few people are highly paid, rest are not. Very divisive culture. If you put anybody on pip that CEO likes, you are finished. Location is not great too.
Run away from that company. I walked out after working there for a week. Go to sfsuperiorcourt.org and Glassdoor and search for it.
Are you referring to Gautam and Roberts cases?
It's a real 50. Hard but super rewarding
Can you please elaborate on the hard parts and rewarding side of things?
Sure: the hard part is the work itself, as in it’s intellectually challenging and pretty demanding. The rewarding part is the constant learning, the creation of a product that touches millions of people, the amazing connections with brilliant people and the stock compensation that just keeps getting more valuable.
Agree with the other person. real 50, but actually a great place to work!
Can you please describe what makes it a great place to work?
Whatever. One of the senior engineer agrees nothing challenging or interesting. Nothing to blog about or talk about in conferences. Free games may be providing entertaining to millions of users. What about those tiny user population that plays for rental money and totally addicted. Not a responsible company in my opinion. Paper money. Hope you get to cash out, unlike your employee cash in the games. More money skillz takes, it automatically increase stock option. You ought to dig deeper. If you are happy, stick around.
I agree with the advice to stay away. The engineering division as a whole is a mess. Some reasons include 20 point weekly Sprint quotas, where they equate 1 pt = 2 hrs of work, with very aggressive and unrealistic quarterly goals. The result is people are frequently stressed out and scrambling at 4 PM on Fridays trying to hit said point quota. It hasn't happened to me (yet) but there's gaslighting and guilt tripping by your manager if you miss the quota and or quarterly goals. Tons of micromanagement and bureaucracy. They hire mostly co-ops and junior level engineers because they are cheap, so the result is a lot shoddy work and frequent fire fighting. Very top-heavy in that there a ton of managers with inflated titles but no corresponding staff.
Out of curiosity what is the tc like? And do they give stock options
Thanks for the info y’all I was thinking about applying since I saw it on hackerrank now I’ll def reconsider
It’s not for everyone, but the people who are there love it. Why not apply and see if it’s for you or not?
do you have the skillz for SKILLZ?