J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 2 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez NorthBay en déc. 2017
Entretien
Very similar experience to the one shared just below me.
Interviewer (company's co-founder) kept me waiting long time on interview video call. In-person interview again, same founder guy made me wait for nearly half an hour.
He was with me for over an hour, but didn't feel like he was interviewing me!! He used interview time to take detailed notes of design approaches formulated by my previous company. He was insistent on me repeating design sections multiple times so he could note down every bit on his laptop. Seemed unethical to me as interview platform was used as an opportunity to freely ask me questions for gaining insight into my company's innovation, and to use to his company's advantage.
I also wondered about his professionalism and mindset when for every project he asked me to state full names of each of my colleagues at the time. I felt humiliated to say the least!
I found them to be ill-prepared for interviewing, or hiring.
I would agree- The most professional and serious guy was the recruiter himself. My appreciations to him. He sells the company well, he got me interested.
I also agree- If you were interviewing for a role with this company, please be reminded that the company has just a handful of people front ending customers in US, while the whole of company is in unstable Pakistan though they claim to be a 200+ person company. Seems they felt offended when I was trying to understand about collaboration/role with team in Pakistan, prompting questions like- "why do you ask this".
J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 2 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez NorthBay (Toronto, ON) en juin 2019
Entretien
I was contacted by a fairly desperate recruiter that this company would be highly interested in my profile. I thought maybe give it a try. If someone pays better, why not checking it out. I'm with a FANG company right now and they claimed they are employing many ex-FANG employees.
After a pretty bad experience with arranging a call with one of their hiring managers it finally worked and someone called me like 10 minutes late briefly explaining what they do and asking about some cloud technology experience I stated in my resume. Next thing is the guy pretty much makes it clear that the position would involve 50-75% of travel, which contradicted what the recruiter told earlier. If things weren't worse enough already the guy was shocked about my current TC with a FANG company and concluded that's way out of their comfort zone and hung up without even being remotely polite and saying something like was nice talking to you.
If that company seriously wants to attract talent and to make talent to quit FANGs, then they need to land in the reality first and share their profit fairer. They claimed to employ ex-FANGs, but my LinkedIn search wasn't conclusive about this.
But despite this, everything I learned during this very brief interview about that company didn't really sound like a place anyone I know would like to work for...
J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 2 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez NorthBay en déc. 2017
Entretien
I was contacted by the recruiter over Linkedin for a Solution Architect (Remote position) in United States.
First was a video interview with a Solution Architect for 45 minutes.
The questions were pretty basic and the interviewer said he was impressed.
But, a few things - Firstly, the interviewer was unaware of the role I was interviewing for. The company only less than five openings in total in whole of US!!
Second, a video interview where the interviewer doesn't care to switch on the camera.
Next round was a video interview with another Solution Architect after a few days, scheduled for 45 minutes. The interviewer was a totally unprofessional person. I did not get through after this round, but let me share what I went through.
He was frantically searching for my resume in his computer at the start of the interview. This guy switched on the camera, but he wouldn't face you while he worked on his another computer. Occasionally he would give a glance as if you were some stranger blabbering something in the video call.
As a company pattern, even this guy wasn't aware of the role I was interviewing for. He also did not know I had a first round with another guy in his office. A completely networked professional work environment (pun intended) it seemed.
The interviewer was totally uninterested in anything you talked and was not even prepared to ask any questions. It was supposed to be a technical interview. It seemed as if somebody woke him up from a deep slumber on a holiday.
A week later, the recruiter let me know that the hiring manager did not deem me fit for the role. That's okay, but the experience is one of the worst that I have been through.
The only professional guy was the recruiter himself. My appreciations to him.
If you were interviewing for a role with this company, please be reminded that the company has just a handful of people front ending customers in US, while the whole of company is in unstable Pakistan though they claim to be a 200+ person company.
Hopefully someone will read this and make themselves aware of what is to come.