[acbellini]

Toptal does take time and spend money on reviewing candidates: there are no round-manhole-cover questions, there are algorithms for which one can prepare, there is a live coding session and a project that is evaluated by an experienced developer, together with the candidate. As you say, there are badass developers evaluating other developers reviewing their work and seeing them work :)

Disclaimer: I work as a Director of Engineering at Toptal and I've held a few hundreds of those live interviews myself.

[rattray]

I'm just confused why acbellini is being downvoted here. Yes, people from a company are coming to defend their record... did she say anything wrong/misleading/meanhearted/poorly phrased?

Disclaimer: she interviewed me. (The experience, by the way, was almost identical to the one I had interviewing with AirBnB recently).