FreshworksThe "aligning internally" black hole. It has been three weeks. I have mentally moved on but the calendar hold still haunts my Google Calendar like a ghost.
SalesforceWoke up to a company-wide email and a dead badge. The choreography of a modern layoff is designed for the company's optics, not your dignity. Document your work now, while you still have access.
The worst of both worlds sold as a perk. Chaos of a startup, bureaucracy of a corporation, upside of neither.
StripeFive of us job-hunting kept an anonymous sheet: company, level, base, stock, bonus, location. It killed every lowball instantly because we all knew the real ranges. Pay transparency between peers is the actual power move.
This is basically what SinkedIn should become. Numbers in the open.
Stripe · acceptedLess "invert this tree", more "here is a realistic codebase, make this work and handle the edge cases". A bug-hunt style round, an API design discussion, and a behavioral. If you are a builder more than a competitive-programmer, this loop actually plays to you. Best interview…
Wish more companies did practical rounds. Debugging real code >> whiteboard trivia.
You've reached the Mariana Trench. That's everything for now.