I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Slack (New York, NY)
Interview
Two phases: 1. Chronological Interview 2. Presentation.
You are sent an email with a Zoom invite for the Chrono interview. Several people may attended. I was expecting them to close the loop and never heard back from any of the interviewers or recruiting. I did reach out to the recruiter via email and "crickets". Meanwhile, I am moving forward with other interviews and presentations.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Who did you work with?
What would they say about you?
What were you hired to do?
What accomplishments are you most proud of?
What are some of the low points during the job?/What went really wrong?/What would you have done differently?
Why did you leave your job?
How would you build a relationship with your AEs?
Initial interviews with HR very positive. Lady said she would put me through to the next round but then heard nothing. I follows up and was told that they might be hiring an internal candidate instead. They never got back to me to confirm so I assume they did.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Slack (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2022
Interview
Process was very well documented and supported by the recruiting team; I had a coach and cheerleader from our initial conversation to signing and offer and starting the onboarding phase.
My interview loop included the following:
- Initial screen with the recruiter - intros and soft questions from both of us on the role, my background, etc.
- Team screen with the hiring manager - a bit of a deep dive on both my experience (technical and non-technical) and the role I was interviewing for.
- A 'take-home' project/presentation (to showcase technical and customer-facing skills, which are applicable to the role) which was well-defined and I was given a loose timeline of approx. 2 weeks to finish.
- A final presentation with the hiring manager and another manager - included a resume deep dive and presenting the take-home project/presentation.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
High level:
- Build a slack bot/app
- Create a pseudo-customer-facing presentation to showcase my background and project