It should be noted that with these gig economy companies that many contractors also leave reviews. Also, most people tend only to bother to write a review when they have something bad to say.
The recruiter called me ton of times, while only slightly increasing the offer (and once decreasing). However the offer was barely more than my current job.
Amazon called me and told me they wouldn’t adjust their compensation expectations just because I live in California and that it’s my choice to live in an expensive state. Pretty funny.
I might be biased but I think our recruiting process is one of the better ones I've seen. They told me exactly who would be interviewing me, how to prepare, etc. I got an offer less than 24h after my interview and the whole process was just smooth in general
Interview process is good but young interviewers are obnoxious. They have issues with compile time errors lol.. Senior interviewers are very reasonable and make good impression about the company.
I spoke to their recruiter and she was stupid like a wall. I told her that I'm not going to estimate my java skills on a scale from 1-10. I can discuss my projects with qualified engeneers and let them decide if my experience matches their need. She moved on pushing 1-10 on other skills. Then she was pushing me to use DoorDash for my delivery needs. Totally irrelevant to the whole conversation.
What's the name of the recruiter? That's a stupid question, I would have hung up if they had asked me that. Also weird because we don't use Java at all (backend is mostly Python with some Kotlin)
I can see how annoying it can be for an experienced engineer to be treated like this by a recruiter. This is similar to experienced engineers being interviewed by kids barely 3 years out of school for LC algos.
My experience was on the similar lines. Except for I was speaking to a guy. This guy seemed least interested in listening to any of my questions. Felt like he only had to read through a precreated script or something. Kept on repeating that door dash has partnered with Walmart and how important that is for their vision. Any of my questions about how is the structuring of the engineering org or when is the projected profitability for the company or anything on these lines were all not answered.
You're asking the recruiter the wrong questions. Recruiters are non technical low level employees, they have no idea when their company is going to be profitable or details on the engineering side.
I had a similar experience too.... applied for a data analytics role. They gave me a take home test that clearly said “no need to create charts”. I got the feedback saying they are not moving forward because I didn’t include any charts.
Brig - kindoff agree. Although I do feel that these are basic questions that the any good engineering recruiter would have information about. Him telling me that ‘he is not the person who can answer the question(s)’ OR ‘it’s too confidential to share at this point ‘ would have been totally acceptable. What threw me off is him ignoring the questions.
Yeah, base is about that good in my experience. I'm not sure if this guy interviewed poorly or what happened. Equity is also good - my TC is around $350k all things considered. It's not a Netflix salary but it doesn't suck by any means 🤷♂️
I was interviewed for a data engineering role, they give you an automated coding test where you have to submit your results by sending an email to a bot. the hiring manager was rude and disrespectful. It was a waste of my time.
I did. Bunch of kids aka amateurs are in charge, I don’t think they are looking to hire or maybe they don’t know what they are doing....Their hiring process looked pretty broken to me. My lessons learned: I am not gonna complete any take home assignment for free, at least not anymore.... Their HR was good tho.
I went till final round 2 months ago My experience - Phone 1 : easy leetcode Phone 2: easy sorting question Onsite: 1st round - algo on graph (you need to execute your program on your own laptop) 2nd round - behavioral 3rd - lunch 4th - design easy- medium level 5th - based on previous experience (no coding) 6th - coding (medium level) it was mostly object oriented design question)
Overall I did well in every interview with proper solutions. Few days after the interview recruiter said I used extra space in my last round. which was lil strange to me because interviewer was completely disinterested in what I was doing. at last he just asked few questions and saw my code dint say a thing about extra space. Company was really good met with really nice people except the last one. Will I interview again?probably not.They have a hella slow process.
That’s what is really stupid about the interview processes. They expect us to whiteboard and write code for 6 different people. Unless you are working on some micro chip, who cares about extra space. They ask DS questions which either you have already solved on leetcode or is similar in pattern. When it comes to real work, it’s entirely different than what they asked in interviews. I interviewed at few and no one has been interested in what I have done or what projects I have worked on. They bloody want me to sort k-sorted streams on a whiteboard.
What worries me is that nowadays even a minor mistake gets you a rejection. For example, I was recently rejected from a unicorn because out of 6-7 problems that they asked me, in the first round, I took a hint each for two problems. Rest of the rounds were perfect.
I get a reject saying that I was weak in the first round. It amazes me that they can find candidates who can just print out the code. It makes me wonder if they knew the problem beforehand.
Totally agreed with the comments. Interviewers are the problem in tech interview. It will only select the people solved the problem before and recently. That means the process is random and it selects the people who either had been out of job for a while or people who leetcode at their job. You end up hiring bad people.
One more thing that annoys me is interviewers expecting us to implement popular but hard algorithms. For example, I cannot imagine anyone in the world coding the k-th largest number in worst case linear time, if that person has not seen the algorithm (I agree that you should be aware of that algorithm but asking it as an interview question doesn’t make sense). Ask something that can be solved in 45 mins even if the person hasn’t seen that problem beforehand.
Interviewed with them out of curiosity, got an offer, but was not impressed. Engineering there sounds like a house of cards relative to what we have at Uber (not that our stuff is perfect by any stretch). I’m staying at Uber.
Otoh, I had good recruiting experience with doordash; comparable to any mature company. It may really vary from person to person.
My worst experience has been with Facebook (waited ~2 weeks for results) and LinkedIn (no schedule and location was sent until few hours before the interview) .
Can I ask why is the recruiting process important to you? If someone had a bad experience due to the logistics that’s on the recruiting department, which you will probably not interact again. If it’s the hiring managers, it’s on the department that you are applying for, why let the recruiting process bother you?
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The recruiter called me ton of times, while only slightly increasing the offer (and once decreasing). However the offer was barely more than my current job.
I am not gonna complete any take home assignment for free, at least not anymore....
Their HR was good tho.
My experience -
Phone 1 : easy leetcode
Phone 2: easy sorting question
Onsite:
1st round - algo on graph (you need to execute your program on your own laptop)
2nd round - behavioral
3rd - lunch
4th - design easy- medium level
5th - based on previous experience (no coding)
6th - coding (medium level) it was mostly object oriented design question)
Overall I did well in every interview with proper solutions. Few days after the interview recruiter said I used extra space in my last round. which was lil strange to me because interviewer was completely disinterested in what I was doing. at last he just asked few questions and saw my code dint say a thing about extra space. Company was really good met with really nice people except the last one. Will I interview again?probably not.They have a hella slow process.
I interviewed at few and no one has been interested in what I have done or what projects I have worked on. They bloody want me to sort k-sorted streams on a whiteboard.
I get a reject saying that I was weak in the first round. It amazes me that they can find candidates who can just print out the code. It makes me wonder if they knew the problem beforehand.
It may really vary from person to person.
My worst experience has been with Facebook (waited ~2 weeks for results) and LinkedIn (no schedule and location was sent until few hours before the interview) .