props for your employer to build a lean bussiness that can sustain paying bank to engineers, and for sharing the profit. This is a reminder for myself not to overlook companies like yours

I was as shocked as you are when we started talking salaries.

Thought I'd interview because I was getting sick of the old job. Wasn't intending to start actively looking.

External recruiter approached me on LinkedIn, had an interview with her, another 3 interviews with the company. No leet code nonsense. Did do a personality and IQ test though. And a problem solving excercise which involved troubleshooting Python and SQL. The final interview followed by a group chat with the whole engineering team.

Honestly the whole interview process was really enjoyable. I'm stoked to be here.

That said, I've worked for small companies in the past. Two in fact. And they both hold the rungs for second worst and actual worst companies I've worked for. With this new company though they also hold the top! But it's early days. So far so well.

This was all in March/April too. Quite recent.