I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Phiar Technologies in Mar 2022
Interview
Did 5h30 hours of interviews for not a technical fit
1h technical chat with VP of eng
1h technical chat with CTO
30 min presentation with 9 people in it on a previous technical project I've done.
1h30 Android live coding interview with 3 people attending
1h C++ live coding interview with 3 people attenting
30 min chat with CEO
I was deemed not technical fit. I have a hard time understanding the process of evaluation for an EM position.
It took 5h30 and about a dozen people to come up to this decision.
They try to put me in a position that I didn't fit in and were still trying hard to make it work.
Overall, very bad process, as this decision could have been made a lot earlier and there is absolutely no need to involve that many people in each interview.
I would challenge them to live code on coderpad on a rusty language in front of 3 people that never stop interrupting you.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Live coding x 2
Tech chat x 2
CEO chat
CTO chat
VP Chat
I applied in 2019. The process was fine. They have a very smart team and the recruiter is good at guiding you through everything step by step. But the team is not transparent. I applied for a Senior role and it was not until the offer stage that the CEO said that would not be the case. I also told them I needed to be remote and during negotiations the CEO clearly did not want that to be the case, even though he had previously said they could be flexible. Why offer that if you're not actually okay with it? Offer declined.
