I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Etsy in Jan 2016
Interview
Bizarre interviewing experience. Probably one of my worst interviewing experiences in the tech industry.
Long story short, they have a serious problem with recruiting. Their process is horribly broken. Maybe their recruiters are incompetent or maybe its their engineers. Maybe the engineers are blocking new hires to protect their own jobs. Whatever it is, the end result is that I would not invest any money in Etsy stock because ultimately, such a horrible process is a reflection of the incompetence of upper management.
My experience was very similiar to the other experiences described here. The communication was bad throughout the interview process and after the interview, again, there was no communication from their recruiter. I did the interviews well so there really is no reason for them to reject me. But even if they found better candidates, professional tech organizations typically send a short "Dear John" message to conculde the process. In this case there was nothing.
Something's wrong with this company and I am glad that I did not have to join the company to find out what it is.
So don't interview with this ridiculous excuse for a tech company unless you have a lot of time to waste.
They contact me via linkedin, then I was interviewed by a very kind woman who told me all the benefits and ask me my economic expectations, then I have the technical interview with two developers
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
search in a list of words with python or javascript, with a prefix.
Open book interview
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Etsy (Ciudad de Mexico) in Mar 2025
Interview
Todo fue muy rápido de agendar, los reclutadores están en constante comunicación contigo, tratan de darte material de preparación. Te contactan por redes sociales y de ahí te piden que apliques en una vacante de su portal y después vas agendando entrevistas que son 2 fases, la primera de 1 ronda técnica y la otra de 4
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Es una entrevista que sale de tu zona de confort ya que tienen un IDE especial donde van haciendo tu evaluación técnica sobre el mismo proyecto pidiéndote que hagas ciertos tasks
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Etsy (Ciudad de Mexico) in Dec 2024
Interview
First, I had an interview where we discussed my experience. The next step was a live coding challenge. In this challenge, I was given a Flask project and tasked with resolving all the bugs in the code.