I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Slack
Interview
An exercise to use Slack developer platform, followed by phone interview and onsite interviews and finally a culture fit interview after onsite. Overall 7-8 rounds approx excluding the recruiter round. Interview process moved very quickly.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There was a detailed System design question which spun off from my existing design , followed by coding questions and a detailed architecture diagram of an application built off Slack platform. There were questions from engineering skills too including monitoring, logging, devops.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Slack (San Francisco, CA) in Aug 2018
Interview
Personal and relevant interactions that conveyed the job and the company well throughout the process. Thorough process but with no wasted motion on either side. I got an honest preview of what the job would be like and gained a high degree of confidence that this was a fit based on the process
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Slack (New York, NY) in Feb 2018
Interview
This was one of the more broken recruitment processes I've ever seen, which doesn't bode too well for the excitement of the organization. My initial screen was rescheduled 10 minutes beforehand because the recruiter forgot she was sick. Ok! Feel better!
We reschedule for the following week and have a pretty good chat. She sets me up on a phone interview with the hiring manager for 2PM on a Tuesday. HM calls me and asks a question and I start to answer and she says "hold on hold on...I have a conflict. Can we do this at 4PM instead?". Sure, why not? 4PM rolls around...she doesn't call. Never calls back. I email the recruiter and she apologies and reschedules it for Thursday at 2PM. 10 minutes before the rescheduled interview I'm emailed by the recruiter that the HM is on maternity leave now so we have to reschedule with someone else. Whew chylde...what is going on in this office?? All these emergencies seem to happy 10 mins before I'm supposed to talk to anyone... ;)
I'm knees deep invested in this but I mask my frustration and allow the reschedule for 2PM the following Tuesday. 3 minutes before the interview I get an email from the recruiter that the new hiring manager is out sick (????? whaaaat) so I'll be speaking with someone with the same position I'm interviewing for.
He actually connects (Yes!! I'm in!!) and...he has no real questions. He was clearly thrown into this and is scatter brained, asking basic "what interests you about Slack?" and "what are you looking for in your career?" questions. The call lasts about 10 minutes and he's pretty mum trying to wrap it up and get me off the phone.
Standard rejection email the next morning. All in all about 3 weeks of just being thrown around and maintaining a smile just hoping to join a product that I really admired until I saw how much the employees just generally don't care about anyone. What a mess, and a true embarrassment to any company's purpose of good candidate experience.