My first month at Seoul Robotics

About Seoul Robotics: “Making Robots Intelligent”

3D Perception solution company.

Founded in 2017 in Seoul, South Korea.

Co-founders: Hanbin Lee (Cap), Jaeil Park (J), Oran Kwon (Naro), Hong Minh Truong (Doc)

Products by SR: SENSR 3.0 and ATI (Autonomy through infrastructure), QuickSite

How did I get to join Seoul Robotics?

I applied for the position of front-end developer via LinkedIn!

The whole hiring process took around 2.5 months in my case.

Round 1: Documents (Resume, Cover letter submission) + HR Interview

Round 2: Interview with the Product Team (Product Team Leader and Senior SWE)

Round 3: Technical interview - Front-end assignment involving Babylon.js (JavaScript library for displaying 3D graphics in a web browser via HTML5) + explanation of the assignment

Round 4: Culture-fit interview with the CEO

What is the work like at SR?

Work is challenging. Yet it is fun.

I can feel my skills as a front-end developer becoming better by the day.

The pace of development in the product team is fast. Like really fast.

Clear opportunities for growth in the long-term.

The stack we’re using:

React + Next.js + TypeScript

Tanstack Query

Zustand

MUI-like Custom UI library called Seoul Robotics React-toolkit (created by Minhoon)

If Auth is used: AWS-Amplify Auth

What are the people like at SR?

People in the Product-dev team are smart.

Intrinsically driven to deliver.

Extremely hard-working.

Committed to excellence.

I’ve gotten close to co-workers from other teams and they are also really smart, hard-working, kind and friendly! It’s a fun environment to work in.

Perks of working at Seoul Robotics:

Amazing co-workers

Can freely speak in English or Korean

A budget of ~$400 for cross-team parties per person per year

No dress code

Books and courses supported

Free annual health checkup