I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at Slack in Aug 2019
Interview
The interview process for this role was such a positive experience. I applied through an internal referral and a recruiter reached out to me within 2-3 days for a screener. When we got talking about the role and I gave her some background on what I do (walked her through my experiences, interests, etc). As we talked, we were able to figure out together that the role wasn't the best fit for me. Totally fine- it's a matchmaking process.
I want to emphasize how genuinely interested and compassionate she was. She clearly loves what she does, and is very good at it. I felt comfortable and heard. It was very refreshing, and reinforced my respect for the company. 10/10, would apply again.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Slack in Jul 2019
Interview
Throughout this entire process, the recruiteer was very challenging to work with.
First, she emailed me on a Sunday telling me I only had one hour to complete the take home test that she sent me that Friday before and asking when I would complete it. However, in the instructions, she never once specified that I only had an hour to complete- in fact, she said I'd just bring it when I came onsite to present it. When I replied to her email with that, she told me that she got this mixed up with a different role she was recruiting for.
Next, when I came onsite the second time, she asked me if I had ever been to Slack's office before this day. I mentioned to her that I was there just a few days earlier for the first onsite that she had set up for me... it made me feel as though she didn't value my time enough to realize that I had already invested a couple hours of my time coming onsite previously for the first interview.
During this second onsite, I asked her what next steps looked like, as I wanted to time this with other processes I had in cycle. She mentioned that there'd be a "second onsite". I mentioned to her this was my second onsite (this was the second time I said this to her) and she said "oh no the first one wasn't an onsite it was just a presentation". Actually, I had quite literally come onsite AND yes, there was a presentation, but then I got asked to do a sql test and case study for two interviewers, so to me this doesn't seem like "just a presentation". I felt like there could have been much more transparency in what the process would look like upfront. If I knew the process were this long, I would not have began. Simultaneously, I was interviewing at much larger tech companies who have notoriously long processes, and not a single one had a process that involved coming onsite more than one time.
The last piece where I felt the recruiter had no respect for me and my time was after she had promised to get back to me within 2-5 business days of the interview, and I didn't hear from her until 3 weeks later. It was incredibly disrespectful and left a bad taste in my mouth. I was an employee referral. If this is how Slack treats referrals, I can't imagine how they continue to get referrals.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Take home test, on-site presentation, case, and sql test; second onsite, behavioral and case questions
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Slack in Jun 2019
Interview
It was a positive experience. Had a call with the recruiter and arranged a phone interview one week after. It was all technical. Didn't had a chance to do an onsite interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical question on data structure and memory allocation