In summary - great people culture, wobbly engineering culture.
The recruitment process was one of the best I've seen. Although it took some time 6+ weeks, involved 5-6 rounds of interviews, the process itself was superbly managed, credit to their recruitment staff.
The people professional, friendly. A few discussions and product decisions do seem odd , even in the context of Toast being a start-up engineering wise & growing fast. The staff do skew young and this explains some of what I'd consider rookie errors, no doubt this can be fixed.
Again seem great people to work with.
I went with another offer.
Fine - just a bit more dragged out than I'd like. Team seemed a bit more focused on the job at hand than passion for the company. Many rounds + presentation.
J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez Toast Inc
Entretien
There was one uninspired convo with a product lead, answering some questions on how to skim margin off restaurant operators. Asking questions in-return revealed a lack of any inspiring vision for the product - had to field the most generic answers copied from some corpo book - learned absolutely nothing (learning per unit of time as low as the stock price).
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
How would you monetize x,y,z, services for sellers etc.
Cleared 4-5 rounds with them. Had good discussions with their DoP and engineering folks.
The final round was with their India site leader. She is someone they hired from Amazon. She asked me what I was looking for in my next stint. Amongst other things, I mentioned that I am also looking for some resemblance of a work life balance (for context I was working in a start up where I had not taken a day off in last 14 months, no Saturdays , no Sundays). The moment I said this, she responded with sarcasm, "that oh so you want to join here just so that you can chill out". I knew, I didn't want to work for such a leader. So I just managed to somehow thank her for her time and get off the call.
I want to say a lot more on the topic, but I will leave it up to karma to give the "leader" her due.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
What are things you are looking for next in your career?