London’s Lonely Unicorn: Two Frugal Expats and Their Billion-Dollar Startup
Throwaway for obvious reasons.<p>I applied for a position as a software dev there a few years ago through a friend. I hated every single moment of it.<p>It was like they exported the very worse from Silicon Valley&#x27;s bullshit start-ups attitude. They just couldn&#x27;t shut the fuck up about how they were really changing the world (yeah right), how awesome it was to work 60 hours a week for such a great Vision, how sick their (mandatory) team-holidays were, how everything and everyone was so siiiick here, mate.<p>I did all the rounds up to the one with the VP of Engineering who asked me to code FizzBuzz on a whiteboard (no kidding) and then spent the rest of the hour bragging about how last week he had turned down an &quot;amazing engineer&quot; (his words) because he wasn&#x27;t &quot;cool enough&quot; to be one of them. You know, he was a bit of a loser, mate.<p>It really felt like a cult of ego-obsessed people with some narcissistic disorder; even worse, it felt like everyone was lying.<p>That said I&#x27;m sure there are a lot of nice people who work there, this is just my experience so take it with a grain of salt. The product is also good, I used it a few times myself.