I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Slack in Oct 2021
Interview
1) Screening interview with recruiter
2) Screening interview with a manager
3) Coding challenge (actually, review a PR in Github)
4) Call with recruiter to give me "tips"
5) 4.5 hour process, with 1 manager, 1 coding session (1.5 hours), 1 system design session (~45 min) and a soft skills session with a Senior Staff Eng.
Recruiter told me they have a 24 hour SLA to give results, I got mine 10 days after, stating that "my technical skills were fine, but there wasn't a cultural fit due to me not being collaborative". So I guess me talking about how I collaborate with every team in every company I've been in, and trying to have "collaborative" technical sessions with interviewers that barely spoke a word was not enough for them.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Everything was centered around designing/building a simple chat service
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Slack in Oct 2021
Interview
Round 1 with Recruiter.
Round 2 with Hiring Manager to get general background and see team fit.
Round 3 had 2 take home challenges, spent about 6-8hrs solving it.
Got selected for next round, they sent schedule for next 4 rounds, later I got a call saying the position is filled by internal employee, total waste of time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
General experience and some situational questions.
I applied online. I interviewed at Slack in Oct 2020
Interview
They were very flexibel for timing the different interviews. There were no pressure through the whole process. Overall very good, pleasant experience. Interesting conversations, interesting people. High interest in personality.