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Would love to hear some evidence of this. I've never worked there (well, not true, I did in the 80's as a stock person, cashier, and later inputted sales data into the mainframe in their back office), but I know nothing of their modern engineering culture.



I’ve worked there. It’s pretty awful. Their hiring process is seemingly designed to acquire candidates that outright lie in the interview process. These people never get reprimanded, simply “moved around”. Lots of people in management positions without any engineering experience because they promote to tech from other parts of the organization. They have disdain for overly “academic” hires and opt for those coming from technical schools and boot camps. That on its own isn’t a problem, but when paired with the proclivity to hire fraudsters - it means they don’t hire people who have an eye to detect such things.


I went to a university they recruited out of heavily so took a tour of their campus and know quite a few people who ended up working there.

At the time (late 90's, early aughts) they were basically a sweat shop. I had one person working there tell me they got sued by one of their developers after said developer broke down their salary into hourly and were making under minimum wage due to all the overtime they were working.

The tech was pretty cool (back then, can't speak for today) but I would never work for them.




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