Deel Senior Backend Engineer interview questions

I had an initial process with Flatworld 1. quick assessment about NodeJS and JS knowledge 2. send video recordings to assess english level and communication skills 3. Codesignal assessment, 1:30h maximum but for this position it took me 45mins. 4. Tech interview with human with some technical questions and to talk about past experience. 5. If you get here, Deel's home challenge is sent to you and you have to submit it. 6. DEEL: once the challenge is submitted, HR manager reaches out and books a 30 min screening talk Flatworld process was good overall, quite automated. Deel TAM interview felt OK, but after two days I received a follow-up email saying they were rejecting me because they want people happy working +40 hours a week, working overtime more than 4 days a week and that they want that because they're in hyper growth. It feels very odd to be asked if you're OK working overtime. Also hard to say yes when you don't know the team, the projects, etc. Finally, in a world where the trend is to reduce hours to 6 or 7 per day by maintaining productivity, being asked about feelings about working +8h a day feels weird again. High growth reason isn't people working overtime. It's due to effective, passionate and pragmatic people that are productive within 8h a day. Assessments should be focused on that. If you still want to hire people explicitly willing/happy to work +8h a day, please mention it in job descriptions and do not hide it behind interview questions. I spent a lot of time going through the whole process.

The entire process was consistent and smooth, from the Talent Acquisition Team to the Engineering Team. All my questions were answered in record time, and there was minimal delay between each interview step.