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Senior Full Stack Interview Experience - Portland, Oregon

September 1, 2019
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

No code challenge. Initial phone screen with a recruiter and then another minimally technical phone screen from one of their directors.

The onsite interview was unorganized. I was instructed to go to the wrong floor of their building.

Their office manager ushered me to a sofa, where she left me unattended. I was told someone else would help me get set up in the conference room.

Five minutes after my interview should have started, an employee asked if anyone was helping me. LOL.

Who is running this ship?

Anyways, I was eventually set up in a room where I'm greeted by someone that wasn't part of the five people I prepared questions for.

Preparing questions for the VP of Engineering and a janitor are two much different sets of questions.

Come to think of it, only one out of five people I was scheduled to speak with were who I actually talked to.

Three hours of grilling ensued.

A week later, I got a phone call saying I got a "thumbs down".

Questions

How would you implement Tic-Tac-Toe?

Do I want to do Android?

Implement a backend for a last-minute ticket sales app.

Numerous "Tell me about a time..." type questions.

Talk about design patterns.

If you had to write a full-stack app right now, what frameworks would you use and why?

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