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I am sorry to read that you felt the experience was a negative one. This was a disheartening review for me to read as we as a team put so much into creating a valuable event for female engineers to learn about our startup. During the event there was a panel and three of our leading female engineers spoke about their experience and shared advice for people early in their career. We also created workshop sessions so that participants could gain perspective on the types of problems they would be working on at Symphony Commerce or potentially other startups.
The coding challenge you completed did “put you ahead of the others” and sorry that it was not clear the event would not focus on the challenge. It was a bad decision to send you multiple coding challenges and I apologize for that.
For the onsite interview, it sounds like you had two positive interviews and one interview that you would have liked more of a dialogue than them giving you quiet time to work out the problem. That is great feedback and I shared it with the team so that we don't do that in the future.
Thank you for taking the time to get to know our team. Since the event in March, we have been focusing on building more mentorship on our team. We have recently hired 3 Principal Engineers, Senior Engineers, and a Chief Architect. In 2018 we hope to host another event as the one you attended was our first.
Gratefully,
Isabel Rasmussen
Head of Recruitment
