Slack

QA Interview Experience - South San Francisco, California

February 1, 2016

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Applied on company website.
Did not get any calls for weeks.
An email came in requesting a QA test plan, test suite, and test cases exercise (how to test downloading an XLS file).
Spoke to the recruiter after submitting the 'homework'.
Got a call from the recruiter who said the position was filled but another team might have an opening and scheduled a time to speak with the hiring manager.
Never received a confirmation email for the phone screening with the hiring manager.
Missed the call from the hiring manager due to the lack of an email confirmation.

Concerns: It seems they are using the interview process to ask people to write code or test cases for them. Checked Glassdoor and found out others were also asked to do coding exercises.

Questions

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Slack QA role in South San Francisco, California.

Success Rate

0%

Pass Rate

Slack's interview process for their QA roles in South San Francisco, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

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Neutral0%

Negative100%

Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Slack's QA interview process in South San Francisco, California.

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