I applied online. I interviewed at Indeed in Jan 2021
Interview
If you have 5+ years of big corp experience (even better if it's Facebook, Google, Microsoft, etc.) you have a great chance. If not, don't hold your breath even if they are looking for "someone with entrepreneurial background".
It was the longest interview process in my life due the recruiting team being very disorganized.
I submitted my resume via Indeed website, got a call from the recruiter 1 month later.
Two weeks later I had my screening with the hiring manager. That went well and I was scheduled for a panel round with 4 PMs.
The panel round is 2 hours with you having to come up with a new feature MVP and then defend it. Be prepared to analyze a data table. That went well too and I was moved to the final round.
The final round was 1:1 with 6 of the senior members of the team.
Almost everyone interviewing me was very friendly and 100% male.
I did get a feeling as if my fate was decided from round one since I did not have enough of a corporate background and that fact was indirectly pointed out several times. But then they still moved me to the next rounds.
My last interview with the head of the department was very different from the rest. The interviewer seemed checked out and rather condescending which dampened my enthusiasm about the company big time. To my questions he gave me some very general almost irrelevant answers which only meant that my candidacy was no longer considered. That was confirmed 3 days later.
Overall, a very valuable experience that took 3 months.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
All interviews consisted of coming up with a new feature for the core product, setting up metrics, measuring success and analyzing data.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Indeed in Jan 2021
Interview
An in-house recruiter reached out to me via LinkedIn. We had a pleasant 30-minute discussion, but this was mostly to make sure I was a real person that could talk in complete sentences.
I wanted to wrap up a project at my current job, so I asked the recruiter to check back in 8 weeks. He did. Key point? I made a simple request, he responded (i.e. no spammy follow ups).
Phone screen was run by Karat.io. Process seems fair, but not having done a real technical challenge in years I froze and made all the classic mistakes. Problem was enough, I just panicked.
I'm guessing here, but I would say that Indeed's policy is to source as many people as possible and screen out many via their phone screen.
To be honest, I think that's a great policy (I have a degree in journalism and have coded for 10+ years at a non-profit ... so I'm not the typical candidate job-hopping around top-100 internet companies.
The interview indicated very clearly what I would be judged on: correctness and, slightly, efficiency.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a list of lists, iterate over them and detect if a certain pattern exists. I froze, and bombed.
After the call I solved it in 3 minutes (naive n^2) ... sigh. I'm pretty sure if I got it right they would changed the pattern such that it required a BFS solution.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Indeed (Austin, TX) in Dec 2020
Interview
Had a single interview with four stakeholders at once. It was pretty laid back and was a back and forth conversation. We talked about my background and how my skillsets would benefit the company. I was offered the role one week after the interview.