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