Utile (1)
Lavoro a tempo pieno presso Salsify
Vantaggi
Salsify is a pleasant place to work. There are many great people, and the leadership is good. The company addresses a problem that's important to its customers, and executes well on the various business tasks like product development, customer enablement and support, sales process, etc.
As a software developer, it's a good culture. People are competent. The team values quality, follows many industry best practices, and incorporates newer technologies in a careful but steady way. People are open to practical solutions and figuring out how to pilot new features quickly without letting things become too messy. We have a lot of product work to do, but it's rarely stressful.
Svantaggi
It's not great for a person who wants to derive a lot of meaning from their job. Basically Salsify exists to help brand manufacturers list their products on retail websites. As you learn more about it, the retail industry has many interesting details and challenges, but still it's ultimately about selling stuff. Salsify isn't evil, but if you want your life to involve more soulful work, you likely need to figure out how to do that outside the office.
Some engineering-specific cons: the team is big enough that it's difficult to just start using a new technology or process that you're personally excited about - an early stage startup would be much better for that. Similarly, the longer tenured people aren't particularly open to ideas from newer engineers, so you need to have very strong social skills and persistence to drive changes. As a new employee, it's possible to be quite productive, but it feels pretty isolated.
Utile (3)
Candidatura
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 3 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Salsify (Boston, MA (Stati Uniti d'America)) a novembre 2016.
Colloquio
I found the position on Hacker News and reached out. I was interested in data science, but they were very flexible and decided to interview me for a SWE position on the data analytics team.
For the first round, I had a quick phone call with the hiring manager and head of engineering. I was asked a data science question and a standard swe question.
I then had an on-site interview, and was asked to send over some code I was proud of to go over for the interview. During the on-site, I met with the VP of engineering, the guy who would be my boss, the hiring manager, the manager of engineering, and another software engineer. The first, second, and last interviews involved a mix of data science and software engineering questions.
A few days later, they called me and gave me an offer (which I accepted).
Overall, I was very happy with the process and everyone I met!
Domande poste durante i colloqui
