Bad chewy interview experience
I was approached by chewy recruiter on LinkedIn with an opportunity. She said first there will be take home hackerrank assessment which consisted of 10 multiple choice questions(which was easy) after that first round was scheduled which recruiter said will be mix of behavioral and DS algos. I prepared for behavioral and some ds algos and went to interview. I was well prepared - the interview started and he was friendly but without any intro he started getting into questions. His questions were more of definition type question for example ( what is docType in html) etc. I answered most of them and for coding he just had code snippets and asked me debug which I mostly did and I was really good at coding part but it was certainly no ds algos as expected. I think only where I lagged a bit was theoretical questions. I was disappointed as it was nothing as recruiter mentioned and no ds algos and no behavioral but some stupid theoretical questions with basic JavaScript debugging. I didn’t clear the first round and they said I lagged in some concepts of HTML and CSS it seems. It was a bad experience just wanted to share. TC: 360k - I work 3 jobs remotely #tech
I’m so sorry. I have learned the hard way about these recruiters: 1. Third-party hired by company: they’re only looking out for their commission and what they tell you is not necessarily bound by the company 2. Internal recruiter, pre-IPO: they are there to get information that they can feed into their IPO documents. That is, company can truthfully claim they are doing X (while holding you on a tentative leash) and then ghost you while actually going IPO. They are not doing X, good hype, good valuation. You won’t get the job. I’m looking at you un-ethical Uber. 3. Internal recruiter, growth company: you need to stay on top of it. Don’t give up, these folks are underpaid and overwhelmed. They are a growth company for a reason.
How are you being productive with 3 jobs?
Freelancing?
You should be ever so thankful you dodged a huge bullet. Seriously.
An sde interview contains 4 sessions: Debug, extend and test (which you described) Algorithms and coding Design Leadership/culture Chewy has 10 operating principles. 3-4 will be covered in last session and 1-2 in all others. Sadly, we do see some interviewers ask rote knowledge questions.
3 jobs? How?