Referred by professional Linkedin connection.
- Recruiter Phone Screen
Standard
- Take home assessment
CodeSignal, 4 questions. There have been many complaints about CodeSignal online, I'd recommended doing some research about others' experiences before starting.
TLDR (as of Jan 2022):
Mix of ~2 easy LC, ~2 hard LC
Do Q1, 2, 4, 3 in that order
"Time spent" factors into score, calculated from when the question is first viewed, and last submitted, so moving on to the next question before finishing the previous, and submitting later would result in a score penalty.
Recruiter asked for feedback, I told them about CodeSignal, and received the response of "We know, and I've been getting the same complaint from a lot of candidates, and I've been trying to get them to change".
- "Power Day" aka virtual onsite
2 Job Fit/technical, 1 Behavioral, 1 Case
Technical Interviews:
Both of my interviewers couldn't make it, and had last minute replacements. No coding, lots of trivia and concept questions asked, fairly standard. Last minute arrangement may have caused some repeated questions between these two. I had time to ask questions about the company and my first interviewer gave me a lot of great answers and insights to the company and how things work (focus on AngularJS, cloud, people within a team may not be working on the same project)
Behavioral:
Standard questions (potentially phrased a little differently), but interviewer's attitude wasn't the best. Did not feel they were very engaged, overall atmosphere was extremely cold. When they wanted me to elaborate on something, they would choose to repeat the question word for word instead of asking me directly, leaving me to read between the lines.
Case:
Basically systems design question(s). Deliberately very open ended first question on product design, I made a few assumptions and was quickly corrected on that. Second question involved light coding to ingest and manipulate a log data stream. A lot of open ended questions were asked like "what do you see from X that could be better". Language choices were Java and Python, even though I was interviewing for a frontend position. Overall a little unfriendly.
Received a call from the recruiter to tell me feedback/evaluation would be provided "soon". I did not receive any further response until I let them know I've reached final stage with another company, and received a standard rejection.