Front-End Developer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California
Process
The interview process at ZenPayroll was quite seamless at the beginning. I applied online and had an email conversation, which was followed by two phone screens (one casual, one technical).
They then sent me a coding challenge to demonstrate my coding abilities. This is where the interview fell apart.
At the time, I had basically two full-time jobs: freelancing and finding a new job. I was busy every hour of every day working on interviewing with various companies, and the coding challenge they sent over was so large in scope that I did not have the time to complete it fully (I had spent roughly five hours on it).
I sent over what I had and tried to explain my situation, but was responded to with an email that stated, "When seriously applying for a job, you should make time to prepare for and complete the assignment." That's word for word what was said to me.
They showed no respect for my time, nor did they have enough respect to send an empathetic email. I was beyond disappointed, as our recent conversations had been great, and ZenPayroll seemed like a wonderful place to work.
As this seems to be the most common complaint for every interview here, I truly hope the folks at ZenPayroll can fix this issue and show a little more respect for individuals' time when applying.
Questions
Build a calendar using any JavaScript framework you wish.
The calendar must display properly and allow you to select days within a given month. However, certain provided dates are holidays and cannot be selected.
The calendar must also be styled using CSS according to their mockups.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Gusto Front-End Developer role in San Francisco, California.
Success Rate
Gusto's interview process for their Front-End Developer roles in San Francisco, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Gusto's Front-End Developer interview process in San Francisco, California.
Gusto Work Experiences
- 5.0Great company, especially if you're working on product/engineeringSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Francisco, California, United StatesApril 23, 2016Pros: - High opportunity for impact - Smart, talented, hard-working people (at least in Engineering, Product, and Design) - Growing company with promising business prospects - Big focus on culture in both hiring and the way the company is runCons: - Some churn and difficulty in teams outside of Engineering/Product, like Sales. - Classic startup work/life balance challenges. Because of the opportunity for impact and leadership, the team is full of people who are perfectly okay with 60+ hour work weeks. This can make you feel obligated to work a lot as well. - Work on the engineering team is pretty simple. There will probably be more interesting work to do in the future as the product and user-base matures, but most of the work being done right now is fairly simple. This is, of course, true at a lot of Silicon Valley companies and is not unique to Gusto. Nonetheless, for someone interested in technical growth (as opposed to managerial growth), it can seem limiting.
- 5.0Not availableQuality Assurance • Current EmployeeSan Francisco, California, United StatesMarch 2, 2022Pros: Great startup, to the moon!Cons: It is located in SF.
- 2.0Smart people and worthwhile missionStaff Software Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Francisco, California, United StatesSeptember 7, 2023Pros: Working with smart people solving challenging problems.Cons: - Somewhat toxic culture. - Advancement is difficult.
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