I applied online. I interviewed at Crossover for Work in Feb 2021
Interview
Once you click an easy apply on LinkedIn you get an email that an account was created where you should start the testing process. There are several stages involved the first one being just some experience checks whether you had certain experiences and once you mark yes all the questions you "pass"!? Even that's considered a test. Then the next was CCAT. But I took some time before doing that as I was busy. Meanwhile I started getting emails every other day from someone there encouraging me to continue the process, but by this time I did my research. I came to the conclusion that they post clickbites on LinkedIn with outrageous salaries (in the title) to get the people to enter the process. So, I answered to the person emailing me "I have done research on your hiring process which lasts hours and has a rejection rate of 99%. With such parameters it fails cost/benefits analysis. I will not be entering the process with such miniscule probability of success. My two cents on psychometric assessment since you mentioned it; CCAT is based on wrong assumptions that IQ test on steroids accelerated multiple times should get you extraordinary candidates if they score over 35. Most of Asperger's syndrome people would be able to do that, but such people can hardly have their own life in order let alone be managers to other people. Todays leaders of the world like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Warren Buffett, Larry Evans and the likes would not pass your test so the extraordinary candidates is not what you are getting. " So my conclusion for this company is that is not worth the effort with suspicion that they are not genuine in their intentions.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Crossover for Work in Sep 2023
Interview
The process involved three different skill-based async tests leading to the interview. took 10-12 hours for the process. I was told by the interviewer that I cleared the interview (because I got all the answers correct) but later received the rejection because I did not have the experience they required for the position. Even though I have much more experience than what they advertised. It seems that they currently do not have roles to hire, but need to keep the website filled. So, I would suggest to not waste your precious time on it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What was the most difficult project you had worked on? Along with the technical questions about angular and backend.
I applied online. I interviewed at Crossover for Work (Columbus, OH) in Aug 2020
Interview
Ridiculous.
I was initially fine with taking an assessment. I have an outlier IQ and I generally do well on these sorts of quizzes.
Indeed, I did quite well on the assessment, answering the first 35 or so questions entirely accurately despite thinking the extremely short timeframe was probably discriminatory or at the very least probably unfair to some of the other candidates who may be just as smart as me but just take longer to think about things.
Around the 40th question, with about 7 minutes left on the clock, I was presented with a word problem in linear algebra, something along the lines of blah blah blah solve this 2X2 system.
This is where I noped out of the deal. I have a math degree and 25+ years of IT experience. I've written a program that find the null-spaces and eigenvectors of extremely large matrices, simply as a thought exercise in optimization.
I don't do 2x2 systems. If they arise in the course of teaching, they're simple yet involved enough that the student can solve them while I catch my breath, and if they arise in the course of addressing a real-world problem, I make the computer do the math for me.
"bUt WhAt iF yOu DoN't HaVe A cOmPuTeR?" Then I won't be very effective as a software engineer, now would I?
I answered C to the remainder of the questions without even reading them, and was told that I had successfully passed the first portion of the assessment.
At this point I noticed that the remainder of the assessment was set to take over 5 hours, and that I had not yet had a single human interaction with anyone at the company, much less been offered to be compensated for my time, so I clicked on the little 'X' in the top-right corner of my monitor and made a mental note never to apply for any of their postings again.
