Interview experience - Compass

I just had an interview with compass and I’m amazed at how companies conduct interviews for tech roles. Leaving my take here, would like to see what people think, and hoping recruiters at Compass see this! 1. Please don’t outsource phone screens to third party companies! Talking to someone in India who has no knowledge of the company and thus could not share any inputs or answer any questions is poor candidate experience. Experienced hires would want to learn about culture and engineering experience to make a decision to move ahead or not as well. They say you can schedule the interview 24x7, now why would I take an interview in the night? 2. Focus on quality over quantity!! I was asked multiple coding questions with emphasis on just solving and no care for code quality or performance. I spent time structuring the code and making it readable, which is how good engineers should write code, so was only able to complete1 question. When would I ever be required to come up with scrappy solutions to coding problems and be required to just get it to work. This looked like a school exam, I’m pretty sure a fresh out of school would do way better than a person with 5-10 years of experience! I was using this interview to get some experience as it’s been a while since I interviewed, but just amazed at how some companies conduct intervs! We invest our time as well, and it’s only fair to expect a better experience, specially for experienced hires. TC: 🍌 @compass