Got a phone call from one of their contacts to schedule the first interview.
The contact gave a bad first impression of the company by sounding apathetic and disinterested in speaking with me.
In the screening interview that followed everything went well technically, but again the interviewer seemed rather disinterested and detached.
After I passed it, the contact didn't even bother calling and scheduled an on-site interview via email.
I was then interviewed by another person who was generally unfriendly, seemed like he was trying to rush the interview, and seemed to place great emphasis on personal projects and former experience which I had little to none being a Junior (which, if they're so important, he could have asked about during the first interview or on the phone).
By that point his body language gave away that he was not going to hire me.
He barely looked at me and cut me in the middle while I was speaking, asking me to explain things that are mostly knowledge based/gained from experience and less technical/thinking-skills based, and seemed critical of every minor fault in the answer, while giving no positive feedback or guidance - only negative.
It was a barrage of questions, one after another, as if interrogating me to try and trip me on one of the questions, without even waiting for the full solution.
I asked to leave in the middle of the interview, and do not regret it, especially given his response to this request.
Please spare yourself the time and negative emotions and skip this place.
If this is how they treat potential employees, imagine how they treat actual employees.
Maybe that's why they all seemed so rude and depressed.
Do you have any personal projects?
The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Pendo Back End Engineer role in Yaqum, Israel.
Pendo's interview process for their Back End Engineer roles in Yaqum, Israel is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Pendo's Back End Engineer interview process in Yaqum, Israel.