Received an email for a phone interview (technical) and it started out with the guy presenting himself in a very dominant manner. A couple JavaScript questions were asked (what is a closure, what does 'bind' do, etc... Nothing out of the ordinary). After answering those correctly, he quickly started shifting gears and asked some algorithm questions that I haven't heard before. When asking to explain the question, he immeidately just started firing off more algorythm questions that he knew I didn't understand. The guy was very rude and wouldn't let me finish answering a question before firing off another. After I told him I was no longer interested in continuing the interview, he quickly said something along the lines of, "yes, our front end roles are mislabeled as we expect lots of knowledge around data structures and algorithms that are common with backend programmers." He kept on trying to ask more questions and I kept saying I wasn't interested and basically had to just hang up because I honestly thought he was just doing the interview to make it known that he knows more than I. After experiencing that interview, I know understand why the company has a very, very low rating and bad reviews. Completely shocked by the lack of professionalism from their first tier interviewer.

I was a little weirded out by the fact they are offering a Tesla to new engineering hires, as well as the ridiculous space doors on their office. Seems gimmicky and combined with their terrible employee reviews here on Glassdoor I wasn't expecting a great process. Their mission and product sounded super cool though so I wanted to check it out. First I had a phone screen which surprised me by going very well. The recruiter was friendly and informative, and asked a whole range of questions about front end engineering, javascript, and even data structures and algorithms. I correctly answered all of the questions and felt really good about the process. The phone screen felt very comprehensive and thorough and I was confident I had accurately demonstrated my knowledge and skills (as much as possible over the phone). I was then brought in for an initial 90 minute interview with the team lead. This is where it went south fast. The team lead boasted about how their vision had been confusing and unclear a few months ago, but now he had a clear focused vision going forward. He then explained to me the three different possible outcomes of their project, all very different (huh, I thought the vision was clear now). He gave me contradictory answers to multiple questions I had also asked the recruiter, and additionally he did not seem to have a grasp on front end architecture and best practices. Once we were done with Q&A, we moved to the technical section. He told me he was going to question me on a range of subjects covering front end and even some backend and algorithms. I was excited to show off my range of skills, however he then asked me to solve a single algorithm problem. I solved it relatively quickly, and began looking for optimizations. He cut me off and said he wasn't interested in my optimization. He continued pressing me for some optimization that I was not seeing, and the "hints" he gave did not give any indication what he was actually wanting. We danced around the problem for the entire remainder of the interview with him never being able to make clear what he wanted until we were out of time. At one point he tried to write some code on the white board but got confused because he wasn't sure if javascript arrays had a length property. Needless to say I was not very impressed. He eventually told me he wanted me to write it recursively, but there was not enough time remaining for me to solve it. As a side note, the time complexity of the recursive solution was worse than the iterative solution so I'm not sure why he thought the recursive solution was better. Overall the second interview was a poor experience. I am a very talented engineer and their evaluation process was very blunt and clumsy. Coupled with their seeming confusion about their future vision and the consistently bad employee reviews, I decided I would not pursue the position further should they ask to advance me, however they did not so the feeling was mutual.