Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso ActiveCampaign nel mese di feb 2021
Colloquio
Most unprofessional experience I have ever had - would stay far away from this company.
I interviewed and received an offer from ActiveCampaign as an L2 engineer and I accepted. Then a week and a half later I was told that i would only be given an L1 engineer. 5 days after that, I was told my offer had been fully rescinded. No real reason was given for any of this.
HR rep was terrible at communication - I would constantly need to send emails to get any sort of updates. He also claimed that the team I was originally hired on would be mostly Java work and use very little php. I had set up a 1 on 1 with my would be manager and he said that previous statement was completely false - his team is 70% php at minimum and any new hire would be expected to do 100% php for the first few months at least.
interview steps
1. hr phone screen where the hr rep gives their pitch on the company.
2. coding assessment given. 3 problems, not all that difficult, can take 1-3 hours depending on how fast you want to be.
3. "in person" interviews.
a. met with manager and teammate engineer where i was asked various trivia and questions like "have you heard of technology x"
b. met with the product team to discuss how the product and engineering teams interact
c. "coding"/design technical interview. no real code to write.
d. talk with the engineering director
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
When product has requested a feature, how do you come up with a time estimate?
Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un'altra fonte. La procedura ha richiesto 2 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso ActiveCampaign (San José, ) nel mese di lug 2023
Colloquio
The interview process was super smooth. the entire process took two weeks.
The first thing was the CV screening through the platform, once I got contacted we scheduled a behavioral interview with the recruiting manager and then a technical interview with some engineers.
The recruiting manager was very friendly and did the typical behavioral questions about "tell me about a challenging situation at work", "how would you deal with this and that"
The technical interview was super nice, the engineers made me feel very safe and welcome, so it was very easy for me to talk my thought process at solving problems. when I got stuck, they would jump in to ask me questions that would guide me towards the correct discussion to make.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
They made me talk at how would I develop an app game where users talked through a chat to guess a word
La procedura ha richiesto 5 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso ActiveCampaign
Colloquio
Received an email from a recruiter after applying to LinkedIn. Spoke with a recruiter in December saying they were interested in giving a coding exam. Weeks pass and never received the exam. In January got contacted again by the same recruiter saying they were exploring options and decided not to use an exam for candidates. Told me I was gonna move forward with an interview with an engineering manager. Spoke with the manager and she was respectful and helpful with any questions. Asked about behavioral what would you do in this situation and how you resolved it and technical questions about front end technologies ReactJS. After that was told that I wasn’t being moved forward.
Domande di colloquio [2]
Domanda 1
If a coworker disagreed with you how would you resolve it?
Had a phone interview with the Engineering Manager. The call itself was a little low on the energy side, but ultimately went well in the sense that they expressed the desire to move forward with my application.
A few days after I received an automated email saying ActiveCampaign was not going to move forward. I then proceeded to email the Engineering Manager whom I interviewed with to get some clarity on the situation. They responded that the automated email was correct as the position had been filled.
TL;DR
Got straight up lied to by the Engineering Manager on a promised follow up.
