Hey everybody welcomes the next video we're gonna be going over a little bit about the company that
you want to work at.
And so we want to do additional research we've applied for the job we've analyzed job post next.
First thing we want to do is learn a little bit more about the company.
But before you do that start thinking of questions that you're going to ask the recruiter and or some
of the employees such as the culture of the company.
What are the standard hours like is it an 8 to 5 8 to 9 or 8 to 6 five to six whatever whatever range
whether it's a night shift early shift.
Is it flexible hours.
Is it salary or hourly.
Any questions relate to the job post so far the responsibilities for you isn't as the employee any benefits
such as unlimited PTO whatever the case might be you start modeling these questions over and writing
them down and you'll find that you'll use the same questions for the most part between all the organizations.
But with moving them it's a little bit here in their so the first thing we want to do is look at the
reviews of the company we want to see a little bit more about the company.
And you can do this with just simply googling the name of the company and seeing what news articles
are saying.
But what I like to do is get really into what employees and past employees.
So we go to Google and you type in Glassdoor because that's what we're going to use for this.
So we'll do this do lift y t reviews.
Right.
So with this you can be the top one now you can do working app which is which is perfectly fine.
So if you do this you're going to get a good information about the company a little bit more details
about us the careers the culture.
Then you'll start seeing reviews which is what we're gonna look at first and then you'll also see interviews
which is going to be important for future videos.
And you can see down here it shows some of the.
Sometimes it shows the benefits.
But if we scroll up here if we take a look at benefits really quickly we can see looks like flexible
hours the employee discounts social events no benefits for for being a driver.
OK.
Free therapy sessions.
No Jim.
Two hundred and Lyft credit.
That's quite nice.
PTO so yes paid time off might be unlimited paid time off maternity leave time off work here whenever
you please.
You can you can get a better idea of employees that are living in this particular area and what kind
of benefits the company has.
What's important here is the reviews and you can see that we've got job postings you know average salaries
depending on what you're doing right.
But if we look at reviews we want to have a better idea of what some of the reviews are.
Now I just want you to note that we're logged in right now so it's not going to show you all of these
into you log in the accounts free just make it.
It's worth being able to read the reviews.
So if we go here it says you know fat fantastic leadership you've got recommend they recommended positive
outlook and they approve of the CEO.
Always take a look at the cons and advice to management.
What I like to do though is you see quite a quite nice reviews and then sometimes they don't approve
of the CEO or have a neutral outlook and you see a lot of good reviews.
But what I like to do is felt by rating
I want the you have the bad ratings first
so we can see kind of some of the the issues that they're dealing with.
And you can also kind of tell what position they were in.
So you can get a pretty good idea on whether your team might be a problem statement and based on where
you happen to be knocking might every every company on Glassdoor that that's been around for any reasonable
amount of time is going to have disgruntled employees.
There's no way around it.
That's just that's just the way it is.
So I'm not picking on Lyft in particular.
I'm just showing you as an example.
But you can go to get an idea of engineers that might have been in your group that or have the same
title that you were aiming for.
And you can get a better idea of what kind of issues they're running into and keep.
Keep in mind of the dates on when these things were were added because there's times where you know
two years ago the company is entirely different from what it was before.
So keep that in mind and always take negatives and positives with a grain of salt.
Everybody has their own opinion but it's important to have a good consensus of positive and negative
that people have said because it all comes into play and everybody seems to make you can everybody has
their own opinion.
Like I said but always always take a look at not just the positives but the negatives as well so you
can kind of wait it out for yourself so you can see here there's a lot of great reviews a lot of four
five three stars.
It looks like engineering.
So they're being pretty very specific with the groups because they hear there's there's a lot of pros
that seem to be in common themes such as you know sort of snacks you're held accountable good benefits
good team support and so you can see their stuff as this important support over says no not really.
So everybody's it's entirely depends on your manager your higher ups above you.
So it really just is it really just depends.
You can have that one person that's just not having a good day.
They got maybe they got let go as they were performing and then they come in and give a crap review.
But don't base your entire opinion on one or even multiple negative reviews if you see a company where
they might have 50 reviews total and 40 of them are negative.
You might want to have a different conversation with yourself and take a look at that a little bit a
little bit deeper.
But when you start looking at you know ninety five percent 80 percent are all positive gives you a general
idea about the company because there's always going to be the disgruntled.
So what I want you guys to make sure is you just you go through and you understand what you're getting
yourselves into.
Look for your your title or the group that you're applying for and get a better idea and feel for the
company as a whole.
Before you start going down that path because if you find out that you know I don't like the benefits
that I'm looking for aren't here and it's sometimes that's the case sometimes not having for one day
is that is a deal breaker for people sometimes not having on them and PTO or snacks is a deal breaker
and if that's you then at least you know that ahead of time right now you don't have to continue with
the process if you know that this is not something you're going to want to do or maybe it's something
you're reading just doesn't doesn't sit with you're right about the company whether it's something in
the news or you know whatever the case might be just take that time do the company research figure out
if this is truly a company you thought you've seen yourself at it's the last thing you want to do is
go to the whole process get an offer in your hand and then finally talk to somebody and then realize
Oh well I didn't work here anyway and you just wasted probably two months of everybody's time and recruiting
is not a small process.
I think on average it takes 40 or so days from the time that you can't they're contacting you to the
time of you actually signing an offer and actually being ready to go.
It's about 40 days and that process restarts every single time somebody says no or has to stop the process
because they're not good enough for the job or that doesn't work the company whatever the case might
be.
Now there's an extra step here that you can do with with your own caution as well.
You can look at people that work for a specific company and in this case we're using left but you can
go to LinkedIn and actually search for security engineer or offensive city security engineer and then
blank whatever the name of the company is and you can start connecting with people that are at these
companies and if they if they do or don't accept you.
I wouldn't go and blast everybody on the team but maybe you know one maybe two people send a linked
in request for connection and maybe send them another message saying Hey I'm applying for this role
I wanted to see what your thoughts about on this were what sort of things are you guys looking for that
might not be in the job description kind of put your name out there a little bit and kind of build a
little bit more rapport with the company because you never know that person might end up being the one
they give you a referral to allow your foot into the door a little bit quicker.