Phone screen with hiring manager. Four and a half hours of panels. Coding exercise/architecture discussions and interviewing with people all the way up to the CTO. For the code exercise, they tell you to “share your screen and code this”. It doesn’t feel friendly or fun. It feels like the company isn’t aware of how off putting their style is for this portion of the interview. For a fully remote team, your engineers need to collaborate well over video and it really felt like there was no preparation or effort here on their part. Not even an online environment to pair program in or a file with instructions (I had to ask them to paste them in the zoom chat). It also felt awkward to have two of their engineers on the code portion. It actually feels like you have two people standing over your shoulder while you code at your desk. That’s more awkward than having one person coding WITH you at your desk. The hiring manager is easy to speak with. The people on the architecture/experience discussion session are equally pleasant and knowledgeable (this seems by far the most useful portion of the interview process).

I was initially contacted by recruiter. After a phone interview with the recruiter, a technical interview with the engineering director was scheduled for a few days later. After that call, I was brought in to the New Hope office for about 4 hours of technical interviews, including programming and architecture problems, along with discussion on previous experiences and challenges. I received my offer the following day.