I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Onfleet (San Francisco, CA) in Nov 2020
Interview
I'll start with the good: The interviewers all had different and complimentary personalities and interviewing styles. The interviewers seem to be on their game with regards to technical skills (at least from what I could glean during the process)
The bad: The full process took over two months and was mostly a mess. appointments were moved. Interviews were spread out. internal and external recruiters dropped the ball at nearly every single point of contact (of which there were far too many and with multiple people). The take-home code challenge they asked me to do, was never reviewed or mentioned in followup interviews. The CEO said they were moving away from live coding challenges and yet they asked me to do live coding in my very next interview (with broken type assist and no debugger to boot!)
order of things...
1. Initial screening/interview with VP Engineering
2. take-home code challenge
3. interview with Founder (David)
4. Interview with Founder/CEO (Mikel)
5. Technical coding session with Systems Engineer (Dhruv)
6. useless feedback call from team.ai (Cory Eustice) that was rescheduled twice without so much as an apology.
The short of it is: nobody in this chain of events will value your time and if you value your time, you might consider skipping this company all together.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
Tell me about a difficult problem you worked on and the methods you used to solve it?
Thank you for allowing us the opportunity to get to know you better and for sharing your detailed and honest feedback – we truly appreciate this. We've now had the time to meet as a team and review our notes and ATS activity in order to better understand where our new recruiting and interview processes fell short. As you've noted, we spent far too long getting you through the various interview stages and did not do a good job of setting expectations for next steps. We apologize for your experience and have made a number of critical improvements to ensure that this does not happen again in the future. We do greatly value the time and effort that candidates share with us and are committed to a timely and fair interview experience for everyone that chooses to engage with our recruiting and engineering teams.
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