I applied as a Backend Engineer (Python)
It was a 3-stage interview process :
1.- First they send you 3 Hackerrank problems (easy to medium difficulty). If you score more than 62.5% you move to the next stage. I didn't get any feedback about the exercises, and probably no one is reviewing them, its just a first automatic test to filter candidates.
2.- An automated English test in emmersion.ai (listen and repeat and open questions). You need to get B2 at least. I got C1. One tip: Talk as much as you can while answering the open-ended questions, and try to use
3.- A mix of Behavioral and Technical interview (conceptual questions + easy coding problem). This was the worst experience I ever had in an interview, and the worse interviewer I ever met.
First, his English level was too bad, it was very difficult to understand him. I'm not a native speaker and my english is far from perfect, but I was expecting a higher english level in an interviewer. He had to write down most of the questions in the chat.
Second, It wasn't a nice conversation like in other interviews I had. He had an attitude like he didn't care about what I was saying and It didn't allow me to explain my answers. He gave me less than 5 seconds to answer, then next question. He was like a robot with a list. He asked for several acronyms but didn't allow me to explain de concept, I had to say what each letter stand for exactly and move to the next one fast. I had the impression that he didn't have a good understand of the topics he was asking about.
Third, at the end of the interview he told me that I had 12 minutes to solve a coding problem using my development environment. I started talking to the interviewer to understand better the problem as it's usual in this kind of interviews but he stopped me and literally told me "You don't need to speak and you can't ask questions. You have twelve minutes and you just lost one. "
Regardless of all this I was able to answer most of the questions, I solved the coding challenge, and I passed.
After joining the Andela network I also realized that they don't have many job opportunities as they promise. The platform where you see the jobs is clunky, and many jobs posted there are not available anymore. Then eventually their "matchers" reach you with some job offer but they usually don't match with your skills. And even if you match with a client now you need to start a new interviewing process with the client. IMO It really doesn't worth joining Andela, don't waste your time. I'll elaborate more when I leave my review about the companny.