J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 3 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Heap en juil. 2018
Entretien
1. Phone screen with recruiter. Standard behavioral questions
2. 3.5 hour take home test that was pretty fun.
3. Technical phone interview with one of their engineers. 2 questions, fairly straightforward.
4. Another behavioral round but this time with head of product. This is where I got rejected and was not invited to the onsite. Guessing that my resume/background wasn't strong enough considering everyone on their team is from Stanford/Google.
Feels kinda bad because I passed the other rounds. Feels like a massive waste of time.
Overall people I interacted with were pleasant.
J'ai postulé via une autre source. Le processus a pris 2 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Heap (San Francisco, CA)
Entretien
Skipped resume review via interviewing.io; which by itself said great things about diversity in the company. Clever technical questions; but the last one (about databases) kind of dragged out. Database-related-experience wasn't in either their job description or my resume, but they kept on it well past the point where I ran out of prior knowledge to use and examples to list; just spending >10 minutes poking without hints. Confusing ending to an otherwise pleasant process.
Le processus a pris 3 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Heap
Entretien
Overall, this process was very thorough:
- initial interview
- coding interview
- virtual on-site:
- - 2 more coding interviews
- - systems design
- - product demo
- - pm interview
- - values interview
I learned a lot about the company, product, and development process, and I had a chance to talk with a lot of people. Everyone was really friendly and smart. It took a lot of time, but I think it was worth it.
However, I was a little miffed about how they handled my cohort. After completing the virtual on-site (and spending a lot of time on this process), I was told that they had already filled all the current engineer reqs, and they would have to ask for more money to potentially hire ahead for next year. I felt like they should have finished the interview process with all candidates before proceeding to make offers, and it wasn’t fair to those of us who interviewed after they filled all their reqs. In the end, they told me I didn’t quite make it, which is fine, and I guess I’ll never know about the details. I just felt a little shorted that they made a bunch of offers the week before I finished my six interview on-site.
Despite that, I thought it was a great company with really smart, friendly people. Seems like it would be a great place to work.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
I was going to write a question here but eh, that seems a little unfair to Heap.
- Regular Behavior questions
- Matrix exercise
It was an average experience, you should practice the kind of questions I just put above. This Glassdoor rule of 50 word minimum is really stupid.