[Push_to_master]

The amount of bloat they acquired over the pandemic is pretty insane.

I was interviewing for a position at coinbase in 2021 and man, it was the worst interview process I have ever gone through. All technical interviews seemed to be extremely specific around knowledge for tools outside of what I was interviewing for. (Senior/Staff level IAM) I am not sure why an IAM engineer needs to be asked tons of questions about specific big data and ML libraries but that level of bad interviewing made me tell them no before finishing all of them.

The real red flag though was that not 1 interviewer had been at CB for longer than 3-9 months. It sounded like in 2021 alone the company 2-3x'd headcount. I can only imagine the absolute shit show that must've been on the inside.

I still think CB seems like one of the better companies in their sector, but compared to the larger tech industry, I think it still has some maturing to do.

[coffeebeqn]

COVID + biggest crypto bubble (so far). I can’t imagine what a sustainable level for them is. For what it’s worth I found their site totally usable if high on the fees but I’ve lost all interest in the fools game of crypto

[sargun]

What's an IAM engineer? Someone that configures AWS IAM policies?

[mancerayder]

Not specifically AWS, but the entire space of identity and authorization, including organization of permissioning of groups within platform apps and corporate apps.

[JaimeThompson]

I'm pretty sure it is stands for Identity and Access Management but could be totally incorrect.