Always been a huge fan of Segment. At one point I think I had a tiny little mention on the Readme of their Ruby client for fixing an issue w/ Unicorn. I jumped head first into event sourcing after their blog post demonstrating how overkill websockets are most of the time. I consider them to have their shit together.
Then I applied to become an engineer there and had one of the worst experiences of my life with a project. The project involved building a clone of their realtime event debugger with React. I really felt as though I had knocked it out of the park... I even used their Evergreen UI framework. All I got was a very brief thanks but no thanks kind of reply that left a very bitter taste in my mouth.
Hey whalesalad, this is Tido and I oversee engineering here @ Segment. I'm really sorry about your experience and just looked up the interview feedback in depth. I'd be more than happy to hop on a call to discuss the feedback and hopefully provide constructive thoughts, and really sorry we didn't do it right a year ago! LMK if you're interested, happy to chat later today or any time this week — I'll reach out via email now so you have my email!
That sucks, perhaps you were rejected based on culture fit? I wish that these VC funded startups would just admit that they're looking for FAANG engineers and be done with it.
That way we wouldn't be wasting our time applying to do free work at a startup just to get a rejection at the end of it. 2c
This is one thing that irks me a bit. You may be doing real-world code tests where you build something, but they're not using your code for it and they don't have copyright assignment over it (unless you sign that away but I've never seen that).
Real-world problems have often been touted as a solution to useless whiteboard tests but then I've seen a lot of resentment when someone doesn't get a job with it. A month is too much time to spend on an interview project though.
I’d rather build something or do a case study (since I’m on the product side now, RIP sweet mechanical keyboard) then walk through white boarding problems.
I don’t mind a take home assignment that has a reasonable due date, but they should only be given deep enough into the recruiting process IMO.
Big fan of Segment, been wanting to transition some of our stuff over and tap into the kinesis pipeline connectors
Then I applied to become an engineer there and had one of the worst experiences of my life with a project. The project involved building a clone of their realtime event debugger with React. I really felt as though I had knocked it out of the park... I even used their Evergreen UI framework. All I got was a very brief thanks but no thanks kind of reply that left a very bitter taste in my mouth.