I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Glassdoor in Jun 2018
Interview
I applied for software engineering role through employee referral. Recruiter contacted me for a brief phone screening. Followed by a technical phone interview with the hiring manager. It was very good, I was able to solve everything and the manager seems impressed.
I followed up with the recruiter several times for 2 weeks. I was told that the manager's feedback was great and in conversation with higher-ups for the next steps and that they want to move forward with me.
Then one day I was told that they are in process of arranging an on-site and the very same day I got an automated email through Jobvite, saying "I am no longer considered for that position".
There was no response from the recruiter after that. It's not as expected. Bad experience.
Thank you for sharing your experience as a candidate. Hearing conflicting feedback from our team regarding next steps is certainly not an experience we want our candidates to have. I intend to review this situation with our teams to better understand how we can prevent the experience like the one you described going forward. I wish you the best in your future career endeavors.
-Head of Talent Acquisition
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Glassdoor (San Francisco, CA)
Interview
I had 1 phone screen and 2 technical interviews. Everything was pretty standard and the people were very easy to talk to & polite. Technical interviewers were great about clarifications and providing hints.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Glassdoor
Interview
Initial phone call with a guy from HR, then a technical interview via Skype where they asked me questions about front-end (CDN, mobile optimisation, latency), back-end (mostly APIs) and security (SQL injection, XSS). After that, I went to their office for the last stage of the process, two technical interviews and one with the HR with focus on values.
Overall, I didn't find them very organised or particularly friendly.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
How would you optimise a single-threaded web scraper?
Design a web app that has an endpoint which can receive heartbeats of some legacy systems, and another endpoint that can be queried to know which systems have not sent an update in the last 5 seconds