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Staff Engineer Interview Experience

May 5, 2023
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied through a recruiter. The process took about 3 weeks, consisting of a TA screen, Zoom, and on-site multi-interviews including a presentation.

You can see this company is becoming a "professional interviewing" company, just a revolving door bringing in talented people to pick their brains all day for the cost of a flight and hotel stay. There were some interesting titles like "director" and "leads" from people who didn't seem to come across as domain experts and had no vision of how to qualify or sell their product. I was not impressed. The TX site had a horrible open work area, and I practically wanted to walk out once I saw their seating arrangement. I didn't believe in the company; their main product was a $50M acquisition of a product that looks like it could be replicated in a garage. I could not fathom how this company thinks it's worth $1B. Besides the presentation part of the interview, they were all virtual. I used a personal day to visit, and honestly, it was a waste of my personal time.

Questions

They were asking a lot of details about planning and executing. There was 1 answer.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 3 interview experiences for the Shield AI Staff Engineer role.

Success Rate

33%
Pass Rate

Shield AI's interview process for their Staff Engineer roles is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive67%
Neutral0%
Negative33%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Shield AI's Staff Engineer interview process.

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