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by karat_qwerty 3002 days ago
I had interview through this company. They gave the company I applied to the bad recommendation. But the thing is:

* Interviewer has less experience than me and wasn't able to understand some concepts.

* Interviewer has no experience with the language I was using (and interviewing for).

* I solved all the challenges and answered all the questions, but the decision was no-go, for some reason (they don't provide feedback).

* I may be wrong here, but they also did recording without my consent. They should ask "Are you ok with recording?". Instead, they just record and violate California recording laws which require consent by both parties.

I think they did very poor job (however, I admit I am biased here). You need to be extra careful interviewing with them. There are some signs that their process is not organized and things don't work very well.

1 comments

Hey, sorry to hear you had a bad time. Candidate experience is something I personally spend a lot of time on, so it's always disappointing to hear someone wasn't pleased with their interview. As someone who's had terrible interview experiences in the past, part of why I work here is that I think we can give a better experience to candidates than they get in just about any regular interview.

Anyway, I'd love to dive into the specifics if you want to shoot me an email. I understand if you're not comfortable doing that, but a lot of what you're describing sounds inconsistent with our normal process, so I want to see what went wrong. Even if we didn't actually screw any of this up, there's still a good chance we communicated in a way where you left feeling that we did. Either way, I'd like to fix it.