I'm not sure which recruiters all these reviewers were dealing with, but the one I had was great with communication and scheduling.

In my rejection email after the final round, he even automatically provided me detailed feedback from the engineering team without me having to ask. A rarity from recruiters!

So my experience was very similar to the others, especially the recent Senior Backend Engineer review.

First round was with an engineer through GitHub Codespaces. This was an existing codebase where you just had to complete a few requirements/tasks, fix some bugs, and fix some tests. It was very easy and straightforward.

Second round was with the hiring manager. We basically just went over my resume and discussed some of the projects he and his team were working on.

Super easy, but I did ask him a bunch of questions that left me a little perplexed. His answers to questions about how they architect projects, what best practices they embrace, how they do testing, etc., seemed to be lacking. I'm not sure if it was just this individual team or if it was company-wide, but they don't seem to know standard stuff that would make their lives easier as a developer. I noticed this alluded to in one or two of the Bilt Rewards employee reviews, so take that as you will.

Third and final round was with a director, I think a staff engineer, and the same HM from before. This was the systems design portion, so it's essentially just taking the live coding project and doing a high-level design.

There is no 15-minute social conversation at the beginning like the recruiter mentioned to me; you just jump straight into it. This is based on how they actually designed their core system, which appears to be a legacy system or oddly/poorly designed. But I'm not sure, so ask more questions than me if you're curious!

Overall, I thought it was a fairly smooth and easy interview process.

My only real complaint is in the final round the interviewers were constantly looking down at their phones, and when I finished the interview, they didn't really say much or thank me for coming in. Not a huge deal, but being professional and courteous towards someone who took the time off from work to come in is usually a polite and respectful way to be.

The other observation made by reviewers, which I wholeheartedly agree with, is that the office space is ridiculously smaaaaaaaall. I've never seen a more cramped office space.

API for a web app, a service for loading CSV from a bank, making a third-party HTTP call based on the transactions and points from the CSV, and then scaling this out.