Overall, the interview process was the most pleasant interviewing experience I've had, from start to finish. Greenhouse moved quickly, was transparent about next steps, and every person with whom I interacted treated me with respect and kindness.
The first contact came from a technical recruiter at Greenhouse who, I believe, initially found me on LinkedIn. One week later, we had a brief HR telephone screen, and later that day via email, I was asked to move forward to the next round.
Due to scheduling conflicts on my end, the technical screen was scheduled about a month later.
It was a one-hour remote coding exercise where I also talked through my solution on the phone with a Greenhouse engineer. I was allowed my choice of language to use, and it was a multi-stage feature build, where I received specs and was asked to progressively add more functionality over four parts. I appreciated that the exercise was pretty relevant to the work Greenhouse performs (onboarding and recruiting), which ended up being the case for all technical questions asked throughout the process. Again, the same day, I was asked to move forward.
Three days later, I came to Greenhouse's offices for an onsite. I really loved that before the interview, I was emailed a full agenda with the names of each person that I would meet. In all, I spent about six hours there comprising two coding exercises and a whiteboard systems design exercise paired with engineers, lunch with a technical manager, a behavioral interview, and chats with HR and Recruiting. Although it was certainly a long day and all interviews are stressful, by the end, I was pretty convinced that this was a company with whom I wanted to work. Every engineer that I spoke with was encouraging, down-to-earth, and truly passionate about what they do, which has not always been my experience while evaluating companies.
It shouldn't have been a surprise, but as an onboarding and recruiting company, they really practice what they preach in making the entire interview process as seamless as possible.