Q&A With L4 Digital Employees

One example was a debugging question where the debugger itself was triggering an exception

Programming questions that seek to explore whether the candidate has a deeper understanding.

Help was always available to those that ask for it. Feedback also giving during code review process to bring people up to speed on the style and conventions used. There are fairly tight standards about style type issues -- this is driven by a desire for the clients to see a consistent style from the team and not to see a variety of styles depending on which engineer developed any particular section.

As with most software engineering firms plan on a whole day.

Working remote

Not so much. Client cut contract at anytime and business model is about servicing clients, so layoff can follow contract termination

Self starters

Their still working on it

Not for me

Technically not so much. A few office politics issues, but none particularly difficult.

They were pretty fun, the few I attended because working remote

No regrets for me.

Pretty good spread on age. Some women, some Asians, but mostly white male nerds. However I felt like it was a less macho competitive nerd environment than msft

Open bay, small desk. But I worked remote 99% so the layout was my home office

I worked 99% remote, which suited me. Benefits were good for a company that size (<100 emp)

Decent

Pretty chill and collaborative

Depends on the client for the project you are working on. Some clients agree to 40 billable hours per week, so you only work a little bit over that. Other clients are "unlimited overtime" get the job done and it's never too late to add a new feature, so it can be a more typical tech work schedule.

Programming, debugging and static analysis type questions.

Typical tech sequential multiple person interviews.

Pretty good. Since they bill the client for your hours whether you work overtime depends on the client. Some clients capped the hours at 40 per week, so those projects are pretty easy. Other clients keep requesting new features, but not changing dates and allowing unlimited overtime, those projects are less fun.

I worked remote for L4 , many others as well. Daily stand-up meetings via audio only conference calls, so you can do these in you PJs

Seems to be mostly on seniority and on. office politics .

L4 has an "unlimited paid time off" policy. You do need to "ask permission" in advance for vacation type PTO and it ous usually granted. However there is some competition for times like Xmas and new years weeks and the company does keep operating during these times and needs some people to work to respond to any client requests. I was able to take 4 contiguous weeks of PTO -- I had been with them 18 months at point and asked 3 months in advance. That was great.