I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Slack in Dec 2021
Interview
My time was totally disrespected.
first there was a screen with a tech sourcer who became very resistant to sending the take home test after finding out I have other interviews scheduled.
After I followed up a week later they assigned me to a coordinator who sent me a backend take home test for a front end role.
After pointing this out it took another week for them to send the correct test. They gave me an extra day to ”make up” for their mistakes.
I completed the test right away. They said to allow four days and it has been more than two weeks, they completely ghosted me
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Review a PR with pretty bad code, as it’s apparently what the job entails
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 online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Slack
Interview
I applied online, and the recruiter reached out to me. He was very interested and mentioned that I would be an excellent candidate for this position. He scheduled a phone conversation with the hiring manager later on. During the interview, the hiring manager showed a lot of interest and even gave his email for any questions for the further steps in the interview. After that, they did not get back to me. I do not expect to be accepted, but it would be minimum respect for a candidate to give a response. You do not even respect the time of the candidate.