I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Slack (Vancouver, BC) in Sep 2021
Interview
Overall OK process, albeit pretty time consuming. Probably took about a month and a half in total though to go through all the stages, and I initially applied 5 months ago.
No trick questions, brain teasers, or white-board style questions; questions were fairly representative of every day work.
Chat with Recruiter.
Talk to Team Manager about past experiences.
Mock PR review of a "Junior Engineer"'s work.
Half-day virtual "on-site" with 4 rounds.
Team manager and team members were pleasant to speak with. The recruiter on the other hand were another story.
They use a third-party recruiting company and it was fairly difficult to get ahold of the recruiter I was assigned to. They went on leave a few times and I was not aware of it on some occasions. After I got my on-site confirmed, the recruiter was supposed to give me some more information about the format and what I should do to prepare. My main recruiter did not reach out, I reached out on multiple occasions and got no responses back, so I went in blind. Turns out the person covering for my recruiter was supposed to tell me to have a development environment set up in advance, I didn't know this so during my on-site, I scrambled and probably appeared very unprepared.
Despite all the time spent, I did not hear back about my rejection until I emailed them to ask.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Talk about past projects, talk about tech used in projects, system design, pair-programming, behavioural/teamwork questions.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Slack (San Francisco, CA)
Interview
I did an online assessment on codability first. A few days later, then I had a 30 min phone screen. Then in about a week, a 45 technical interview on zoom.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Slack in Sep 2021
Interview
1. 20 mins Recruiter call
2. 45 min Hiring Manager interview (went really well IMO).
3. Take home exercise - Perform a code review and leave descriptive comments (spent a while on this) but rejected me after this round with no feedback whatsoever.
I think it went really well but felt like a huge waste of time.