Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Chess.com as 100% positive with a difficulty rating score of 2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Frontend Engineer and rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Frontend Engineer and roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Chess.com takes an average of 14 days when considering 1 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Frontend Engineer had the quickest hiring process (on average 14 days), whereas Frontend Engineer roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 14 days).
Fill in the application on the website. If successful, get contacted to organize an interview. Have interview and it gets taken from there for a possible second interview if the first one went well enough.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Chess.com (Top of the World, UT) in May 2021
Interview
First interview with the head of the frontend part, great attitude, all seemed great. Then a questionnaire focused on Symfony even though I had already mentioned I didn't have much experience on Symfony... Not so good. Then the technical interview... and that's where things got really ugly. One of the interviewers started by telling me that I had 1 out of 5 in the questionnaire (no hi, no how you doing, that was the first thing), with an attitude like "what the hell are we doing here". From then on, he made all the efforts he could to be condescending at times, or plain rude. He kept asking Symfony questions (after we discussed it wasn't my strong suit) and the rest of the questions can be summarized as "all the ways we need to break clean code guidelines to support huge traffic". Apparently, the right answer was screw the good practices, whatever works.
Anyway, I would definitely not recommend them.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What do you do if you have two records in different tables and you need to join them?
I applied online. I interviewed at Chess.com in May 2021
Interview
Very simple and fast interview process. The first interview was 15 minutes long, then you have to answer some questions on a form and finally a one-hour-long technical interview.
I didn't perform well on the interview but I would do it again for sure.