I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Imgur (San Francisco, CA) in Feb 2016
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter from the company via email after applying for the job on their careers page. I replied in the morning the next business day but did not receive a reply until I followed up about 4 days later. At that point they arranged a call with a manager in engineering for the same day, which was nice.
The call itself was pretty casual, just talked about my experience in Android, with using the Imgur API, and other similar services. I was also asked a few "what if" scenarios related to Android development, though they were related to features of the SDK which I had never previously worked with, so I was not able to give very confident answers.
The day after the call I sent a follow-up email to the recruiter to which I received no response, just an automated rejection email at the end of the week. I really would have liked to know more about why I was not selected to go to the next round, considering my exigence for the role and interest in/knowledge of related technologies. Perhaps they thought I was too much of a reddit fanboy, as another reviewer suggested. Oh well.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What type of Service would you use to download a list of image files?
Thanks so much for this response. We apologize that it took four days from the time you made an application to the time you heard from us. We are receiving an excessive amount of applications for jobs across the board right now and we are trying to respond within 48 hours of all applications. We'd also love to give you direct feedback and never mind doing that. I believe the e-mail you received from us mentioned that we have identified a couple of people we feel are a stronger match for the role. When we send that response it usually comes down to overall experience. Regardless, we would be happy to jump on a phone call and discuss further. Feel free to reach back out at talent@imgur.com. Thanks again!
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