Solicité el puesto por otro medio. El proceso duró 7 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Slack (Seattle, WA) en oct 2022
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TLDR; Slack's interview process was one of the best I have experienced in 10+ years.
My total time in the interview loop was about 7 weeks. I was referred to them through a network contact so my experience may be different but it was:
-Phone call with a recruiter - focused on my experience and culture fit
-Phone call with an engineering manager - technical dive into my work history, challenging projects, etc
-Coding exercise - Review code for a project that was completed by a mid level-ish individual
-Full "virtual interview" - 3 and a half hours of meetings with various folks at Slack. Mostly focused on coding, team/culture fit, and systems design.
-Team match interview - I met with three teams which had openings for my skill set. Each team was awesome but one in particular was more aligned with my goals.
The recruiter that I worked with was extremely helpful and transparent throughout the process. They gave me info on what to expect for each step and how to prepare for them as well. It was as if the recruiter actually wanted me to succeed! What a concept!
Envié una solicitud electrónica. El proceso duró 4 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Slack (Seattle, WA) en ago 2025
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The worst interview experience I ever had. The recruiter reached out to me for this position and after recruiter call, I had one Hiring manager call and I had to follow up couple of days later and was responded in a minute about next steps i.e. Take home Code Review. The take home assignment is a complete waste of your time, they allow you 24 hours and even if you followed all good code review practices, you have no idea about the interviewer is expecting. Then comes the most frustrating part, until this time the recruiter was very responsive and providing detailed answers for queries but after this round, no response even after I had followed up twice. I was ghosted without even a result. At least in normal interviews you can get a sense of whether interviewer was happy with you. Giving take home test and wasting 3-4 hours on their buggy code is useless.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
How would you debug if a service starts delaying responses suddenly.
Solicité el puesto a través de la recomendación de un empleado. El proceso duró 3 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Slack en ago 2025
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Long interview process. Recruiter screen, manager screen, code review take home (I spent 1.5 hours). Then a final loop with system design, coding (1.5 hours), and 2 behaviorals. The managers I talked to were great, but none of the engineers seemed engaged at all or like they wanted to be there. After the final loop (which I thought went well) I was ghosted by the recruiter, he didn't even respond after I followed up a couple times asking for status. It's unacceptable to not even get a generic rejection email considering all the time I put into this interview process. Complete waste of time.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Coding - download real codebase with a Slack-like chat app using Sqlite DB. Had a list of prompts to add a feature (private channels)
System design - Design system to injest commands/keywords given in Slack messages, call 3rd party APIs based on them
Behavioral - mostly standard questions, also asked some vague open ended technical questions like "how would you think about the API for user search suggestions in Slack"
Solicité el puesto a través de un captador. El proceso duró 4 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Slack (Atlanta, GA) en nov 2024
Entrevista
First Round: Recruiter Screening
Second Round: Chat with Staff Engineer
Third Round: Technical Challenge; build a mini-app
Fourth Round: 4 separate interviews with the team, 2 of which were system design
