the initial application process is a long, in-depth questionnaire about your development experience. No resumes were required, but the answers were often paragraphs long. After submitting the application, it took 3 weeks for a real person to reach out to me to set up a phone screen. The soonest availability for a phone screen was an additional 4 weeks after that. The first phone screen was pretty standard - a 30 minute phone call with an internal recruiter that talked about the company history, my history, what the position looked like, and a few basic frontend questions about react and javascript. The week after, the internal recruiter reached out to set up a video chat with a hiring manager. The hiring manager seemed a bit bored and felt like they were reading from a script. They asked me a lot of "tell me about a time when" questions, and talked about my soft-skill experiences working in tech. A week after the video chat with the hiring manger, the internal recruiter invited me to take a code test. This involved being sent a github repository containing a single markdown file that explained how to set up the dev environment. When I was ready, I clicked a button that injected the project spec document into the repo, and started time. Only commits added within 4 hours of the project spec commit would be counted. The code test involved creating a simple github gist viewer using react. The first task was creating a module that consumed the gist API to allow searching for gists by user or by id. the second task was creating a react app that used the module to allow users to search for a user, see all of their gists, open a gist, see all of the files and their contents, and mark files as favorites. A week after completing the code test, I received a boilerplate email from the internal recruiter that they would not be moving forward and would not provide any feedback.

The interview process included an intro call with a recruiter, a behavioral interview with a manager, a homework assignment that asks you to build an app with a framework of choice, a technical interview with 2 members of the team giving feedback on your assignment, and a director interview. The process ends with background and reference checks, and a meeting with your future team. Honestly, the entire process was very positive. The team members were great to talk to and represented the culture of the company well. However, my experience went downhill after I received a verbal offer. After 2 extra weeks of waiting and constant back and forth with the recruiter for updates, the role could not get approval. It's a shame because I really liked the company, but they did waste a ton of my time so it's difficult to say the experience was positive in the end.