Solicité el puesto por otro medio. El proceso duró más de 1 semana. Acudí a una entrevista en Scratch Services (San Francisco, CA) en jul 2020
Entrevista
I was approached through a hiring site (vettery) in the middle of the summer. I was looking for a small company where the challenges are not fully defined and there is more impact. My journey consisted of 3 parts:
* Take home challenge, which I enjoyed and removed the pressure of talking through implementation and feeling judged (gave me a chance to explore new tech as well :D)
* Virtual on-site was great and I appreciated the flexibility. It was broken down into 2 parts: 1) problem solving, and design 2) culture and fit, and deep dive on previous projects. Those were done in 2 separate days, which I loved! It made me realize that they are thinking about the candidates’ state of mind (we are not going on-site, so there is room to have the interviews in different days).
* One extra coding practice (they wanted more data points for problem solving that was not easy to deduce from the take-home challenge)
I learned a lot about the teams’ chemistry during my interviews. I really enjoyed the conversations and they gave me the confidence to go through the interview without feeling judged.
Run of the mill tech interview process. There were 2 tech screens and 1 basic systems question. They also included a cross functional interview.
Everyone was very nice and I enjoyed meeting the team a lot.
Solicité el puesto por otro medio. Acudí a una entrevista en Scratch Services
Entrevista
Found profile through hired.com
1. 1 hour coder pad: Same question used. Look up the company name in leetcode I found it in a discussion thread. The person asking the question was very poor in her interviewing skills. I had to teach her a thing or two regarding time and space complexity.
2. Moved to onsite stage. First HR call highly unprofessional and funny. The person didn't have HR experience since they moved from a product? sales? role to HR role. Mentioned he had no interest in my answers but he had to ask because of process. okay...
3. Technical screen: Not your typical coding interview. They allow google and basically use logic to use time delta (use time library) to charge a person rent every month after due date etc.
4. Design a transaction system with an archaic system. Payments? Something similar. Very junior person asking system design questions which makes it tough for them to understand your solution.
5. Hiring Manager call: Uninterested. Couldn't wait for it to get done.
6. Ghosted after the onsite. No response.
Nice people, but their process is not mature enough.
