Has anyone heard about Arc XP, a division of Washington Post? I am interviewing at this place. I don't see anything about company online except this company is in digital customer experience area. Anyone who works there can provide information about work culture, salary? #salary #workculture #JeffBezon #jobs
SaaS arm of WaPo. Originally started as the engineering team that built all the tech for WaPos news room and publishing tools. E.g., a wysiwyg text UI for journalists to draft stories, photographers to upload and tag photos, editors to schedule and review it. A CMS UI to build dynamic pages. On the tech side it’s running on AWS, each tool is it’s own service. There are probably 100+ well known publishers around the world running on this platform and you’d never realize it. Highly scalable and resilient. Past year there’s been a lot of turnover. A lot of the ogs left like dominos. We’re also shifting to the commerce space which is growing pains. Pay was bumped a lot this year but is nowhere near competitive. Sr SWE is prob $130-150k. EL $140-165k. EM $160-200k.
how’s wlb and culture at wapo? i’ve interviewed with vox, which has chorus that looks similar/competitor, and they have a tech startup vibe
wlb for me is good. No one expects more than 40 hrs a week. There’s plenty of work depending on the team or if you have oncall rotation for platform work but it’s really up to the individual if they’re putting in more. The CTO is Shailesh and solid. It’s a remote friendly environment. Sometimes engineering is at odds with traditional WaPo culture which believes energy is in the office. But he seems to have engineerings back, has a vision for it. Arc still operates in many ways as a startup with any new product being hacked together and innovating on the fly but more mature products are less flexible in shifting the direction or architecture as they’re now 5+ yrs old.