Process
The process took 3 weeks.
The screening and first technical interview were good. But then they gave me an unpaid fullstack technical challenge with RoR, React, and Heroku deployment that took a few evenings to complete. The task description was pretty vague and said to create an app where the UI is not important, but then they rejected me because the UI was not "usable enough". The CTO seemed to be in a rush and didn't give enough time to discuss my solution, so he decided that it also didn't do a proper job at data normalization. I double-checked after the interview, and it actually did. It left a really bad taste in my mouth, and I would not recommend going through the process.
Questions
Experience in Ruby on Rails.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 6 interview experiences for the Pennylane Software Developer role.
Success Rate
Pennylane's interview process for their Software Developer roles is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Pennylane's Software Developer interview process.
Pennylane Work Experiences
- 5.0GreatSoftware Developer • Former EmployeeParisOctober 12, 2023Pros: Great people, great culture, ambitious, development orientedCons: There are no cons about working at Pennylane.
- 5.0Very good experience!Front End Developer • Current EmployeeDecember 23, 2021Pros: Really smooth interview experience and good talks with everyone during the process. Everyone in the company is really nice and eager to help. The code base is good quality as well :)Cons: Nothing that I know of.
- 4.0Software engineerSoftware Engineer • Former EmployeeParisDecember 8, 2023Pros: Great culture tech International employees Great product cultureCons: minor product implication for softwar eengineers poor work/life balance
