The interview process starts with a phone screen with an external recruiter. It was a 15-minute call asking me standard behavioral questions (e.g. Why Later? Why you? etc.) After progressing through the initial stage, I was given a technical exercise to complete. With the job being for a Javascript developer position, the task was to fix some bugs in the dummy Instagram application they had. The dummy application uses the Ember framework (which I had no experience with before this exercise) but was able to understand it fairly quickly and complete the exercise. The final stage was an interview over Zoom that consisted of two parts. The first part was a 1-to-1 interview, who again asked some behavioral questions to see if I would be a good culture fit. I found this stage a little disheartening, the interviewer clearly had no interest in my answers, would cut me off early, and generally treated the interview as more of a box-ticking exercise. The second stage was a lot more interesting and relaxed - I was interviewed by two of the engineers at Later. They asked me some technical questions which were then followed by a code walkthrough where they presented a problem that I would have to solve in real-time. One of the engineer's shared their screen, and I was asked to instruct her on what code to write and to explain my thought process at the same time. They also had Google open in a window next to the code editor, which I was free to use whilst walking them through the code which I found helpful, and a more realistic way of tackling a coding exercise. Overall the process was professional and slick, but I was disappointed not to get the job. Considering I got to the final stage, I was hoping to perhaps get some feedback on why I did not receive an offer, but the recruiter never replied - pretty harsh in my opinion!

Entirely automated for as far as I made it. They sent me a link to a 30-minute Hackerrank test which had two questions: 1 technical and 1 subjective. The first question was written with ambiguous wording which didn't provide a clear answer to what the desired output was. The second question asked why you wanted to work for them, and about your skills. I submitted feedback at the end informing them that their wording should be improved, which I'm sure ended up in a black hole somewhere. Received a cookie cutter rejection notice two days later, after reading some of the internal company reviews and other interview stories, it seems like the rejection may have been a blessing.