Basically, they look for superhumans.
The interview process is slow. It’s composed by 2 fases:
- Take home test: 2 challenges: architecture and coding. Not very complicated but time consuming.
- 3 interviews of 1h: One is for revieweing the architectural challenge (that was the best), other for the coding challenge (this one was in english) and the last one is a general systems interview. They expect you to expose your answer as if you were in college. You don’t know what you are going to be asked about but you have to be prepared to answer a 20 minutes response.
You are also asked about specific past situations based on STAR methodology. This is the most ridiculous part. You are asked about situations that you may have never lived, but you have to answer something. Many of the interviewers (8 in total) are not event prepared to run this kind of interviews and they guide you poorly.
After that, you have an extra 30 mins interview with the prepotent VP of engineering.
Finally, you have to wait 4 days so they can give you some vague feedback.
The overall process was a huge waste of time. I still don’t know what were they really looking for. They focus on this stupid STAR methodology but they forgot to ask important things about my real background or projects I’ve been involved. They value this more than the technical challenges. And the unprepared interviewers is so funny. You have to be super ready but they don’t even have time to prepare the interview. That felt so rude to me.
Of course I didn’t receive an offer, but if I had, it wouldn’t change the fact that the process was ridiculous.
My advice: don’t apply. Glassdoor is full of reviews like that with this company.