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Engineering Interview Experience - United States

March 17, 2017
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Appalled at the lack of respect shown to candidates. Honestly, who manages their recruiting team/recruiters?

After reading several Glassdoor reviews, I opted to give Wish the benefit of the doubt and move forward in the interview process after a phone screen. Unfortunately, all the reviews on here are 100% accurate with regards to the lack of attention to detail, the unresponsiveness, and the lack of care when it comes to candidate experience.

I went through the whole process of a recruiter contacting me on LinkedIn, pitching me the role and company, and having a technical phone screen afterwards. When invited onsite (after long delays of waiting for recruiter updates/responses), I had a 5-hour long interview and was quickly hurried out before my last scheduled interview because the head of the department was "too busy" to meet with me. I'm pretty in tune with the vibes I received and instinctively knew I was probably not a match and that they didn't want me to continue on to meeting the head (despite communicating to me in advance that I definitely would be).

I get that time doesn't want to be wasted, and that's understandable. However, what I don't understand is the inability for the recruiting team to at the minimum show respect to the time and preparation I took to continue with the process (especially when I was the one being poached).

I received an AUTOMATED REJECTION email post my 5-hour onsite from a DoNotReply@ address.

Look, I'm not expecting or requiring a personalized essay with detailed feedback on why I was not a fit; but I have colleagues and friends who are recruiters at other Tech companies that value the candidate experience 100x more than what I was shown throughout this process by Wish recruiters.

A note to the recruiting team: think about the way you treat candidates irrespective of whether or not they will receive an offer. In the end, they are a potential user of your product/service. And regardless of that, think about what it means to have common courtesy at the very least in your engagements.

Questions

They ask typical behavioral and situational case study questions.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 3 interview experiences for the Wish Engineering role in United States.

Success Rate

33%
Pass Rate

Wish's interview process for their Engineering roles in the United States is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive33%
Neutral0%
Negative67%

Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Wish's Engineering interview process in United States.

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