There were 7 interactions total with 9 separate interviewers.

At the end of the 6th stage, one interviewer couldn't make up his mind why he didn't want me and blocked the process. He wanted me to come for an 8th stage. I withdrew my application.

1st stage started with a 30-minute phone call with a recruiter from Canada. She quizzed my general knowledge, salary, and strengths and told me their process was 3 stages.

2nd stage I had a Face to Face. An hour-long face-to-face interview with the engineering manager. They seemed really excited and called me shortly after, where they asked me if I wanted to start the interview process...

The 3rd stage was a paired programming exercise with one of the devs from Canada via remote. Lag was killer, but it's the standard stuff. Collaboration is more important than taking charge of the test, which was a nice change.

The 4th stage was an interview with their lead from Canada about my experience, values, strengths, weakness, and getting to know me as a person.

The 5th stage was the exact same interview but with an HR candidate to evaluate my cultural fit and to make sure I wasn't mean or unsocial.

The 6th stage was an 'Engineering deep dive' with the Dublin team, which involved me describing an architecture I had built from a separate project, the goals, problems, solutions, and any questions that they could think of.

Things to note:

• There was a lot of disorganization and unclear communication from the Dublin side.
• Their company values are an A4 page long.
• They proudly announce that it seems cultish and they like being part of the hive mind (3 separate interviewers made this comment).
• Every interviewer will have different expectations and ideas of what you should be.

The experience was less 'difficult' and more 'stressful'.

Why do you want to work for Clio?

Tell us about a personal project.

Tell us about a time you led a team.

Help the Ruby engineer solve a basic search query problem and algorithm design using core Ruby.