1. Chat-based interview asking behavioural questions (using Sapia platform)
2. Take-home coding assignment
3. Technical panel interview
The Sapia platform was buggy and lacking features, so it was frustrating to work with, but it was good to be able to complete it in my own time. Not a good sign for a product company that its flagship product has a bad UX.
The take home coding assignment asked me to build an entire web application from scratch using their tech stack. This was *far* too much work for a job application.
The technical interview had two parts - critiquing the take home assignment and general technical Q&A. The first part was tense, and the interviewers were not friendly. The second part was more relaxed and conversational, and the interviewers warmed up for this part, making it a positive experience.
In the end I was rejected for lacking some of the technical skills they needed.
An AI focused personality and skills training exercise. The system came to some quite unpleasant conclusions about mine that I struggle to explain based on the answers given. I was also not given a satisfactory reason for why these conclusions were reached. I have submitted a GDPR SAR and would suggest that other people in the same position do the same - accountability is really important here.
The standard Sapia AI interview. Which I agree with, if they didn't use their product upfront that would be a red flag. But then ghosted. Given the advertising is 'everyone gets an interview, no one ghosted' this is very misleading as it's just the AI interview and then ghosted on outcome
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Previous sales and account growth experience. Standard behavioural questions