I applied through other source. I interviewed at Compass
Interview
Poor interviewing skills. It was perhaps the most weird interview i've ever had.
if you go looking for questions others can't answer, then anyone can write a book on those!
The inclination of interviewer was to rather show that he had read some very specific concepts and expected the interviewee to also have read the same. i've to be exceptionally free at my time and lucky to have read that same thing.
Moreover, the interviewer had no understanding of low level programming, he evaded the discussion and took in the direction he might have already decided.
The whole interview was quite obscure with queries on things i am absolutely sure are researched when need be.
even the programming question was not to test one's understanding of data-structures / algo's . it was like one of those LC (though not from LC) qus you can never fathom in an online interview setting.
overall it was a very negative experience that cost me other interviews as well, for it left me in a state of mind where i could not fathom how immature this interview was!
Compass needs to learn how to interview.
I applied through university. I interviewed at Compass (Bellevue, WA)
Interview
Pretty chill. Three rounds of debugging, technical (leetcode), and behavioral, which was more like high-level with AI assistance. The values did not come up very much while going through the interview process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Had us do an AI round about forms and matching things.
Debugging, technical, then behavioral. I had been given two language options for the debugging portion (Java or Python) during the phone interview then when I went to the onsite there seemed to be a miscommunication because the interview said I could use JS since I was applying as a frontend engineer. The debugging was pretty doable, the behavioral was odd but fine.
The interview process felt chaotic and poorly organized. What I was asked in the interview didn’t align with what HR told me to expect, and the interview started late. The lack of alignment between HR and the interviewer made it feel like the company overall may be chaotic. Afterward, HR’s follow-ups were generic and robotic, and the employer also mentioned layoffs, which added to the uncertainty. Overall, it didn’t feel worth the effort.
