Absolute unmitigated disaster of a hiring process. Full Stop.
Was told they were too busy to schedule a phone screen, even with an HR/ or recruiter to discuss the role, or what they were looking for, in order for me to get any speaking time I had to pass their tech review process.
First interaction was a timed 10 minute quiz, featuring 12 multiple choice question on hackerRank of picky, terribly useful or even well-know Java trivia. Getting 8 out of 12 was enough to continue, although I doubt the are consistent on that.
This qualified me for a Code Screen, with a Mid-level engineer, where we again used a HackerRank coding environment, of a partially completed Coding exercise. Not terribly hard or interesting, counting number of words in a paragraph, and the number of occurrences, along with which line they occurred in, and printing out in a specific format. Does there really need to be curly brackets around the text output ? Really? Ok let’s make sure we get that.
Finally I was told the process was to conclude with a 45 minute session with the Hiring Manager, geared towards allowing me to hear about the role, and get any questions I might have answered. As you might have guessed, none of these things were true; He was not the hiring manager, he was barely even a manager, and you guessed it, another round of inane, “design” problems. He did assure me he would give me , and I Quote 8 minutes at the end to ask any questions I might have. After being asked how to design a system that took resturant reservations. Vague, unguided, 5 word prompt, “design a reservation system”.
After 2.5 weeks, and three rounds of quizzes, I get my 8 minutes to ask my question, ”is this role remote” answer: I’m not sure. (I was applying because it was posted as remote).
And you guessed it, all of a sudden it’s not a remote role, even in a pandemic we expect folks to be in the office at least 3 days a week.
Great, thanks for so effectively showing me how it would be to work at this dumpster fire of an organization.
I’ll Pass.