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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Vancouver, Canada

May 1, 2020
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I interviewed back in May 2020. I completed a recruiter screen, hiring manager screen, take home assignment and an onsite.

Recruiter talk and hiring manager talk were standard and straightforward.

Take home test was pretty easy to implement, but interesting enough to keep me engaged. Nothing crazy hard.

I did the onsite and I felt very good about it. I had a call with the recruiter saying that they had no negative feedback, but they wouldn't make a decision for up to a month. They kept on the hook for a long time and ultimately didn't give me the job. It was disappointing because I didn't get a clear reason why and I had to wait far longer than I think was reasonable. I should add that they said the whole loop would take 2-2.5 weeks, it took over 6 weeks. Communication was bad during this time and I didn't get any response from the recruiter from my followup emails.

I was told to reapply and reach out to the recruiter whenever I saw an opening in was interested in. They booked a one on one call to tell me this, so I assumed it wasn't just an empty courtesy promise. I did this recently and applied online but I have heard nothing for a few weeks. I would have appreciated some follow up even if it wasn't positive news. It left me confused on my situation with the company.

They didn't live up to their promise of a good candidate experience. I left confused and a bit irritated at how things turned out. I'm not sure why they did not reject or accept me but instead dragged things out. I suspect they didn't like my salary expectations which is fine but that's something that could have been negotiated or I could be made aware of.

In short, temper your expectations. They are just another company.

Questions

There's plenty of documentation of this on Glassdoor.

It's representative of my experience.

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DigitalOcean's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Vancouver, Canada is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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Candidates reported having very negative feelings for DigitalOcean's Software Engineer interview process in Vancouver, Canada.

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