Ho presentato la mia candidatura di persona. La procedura ha richiesto 4 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso CallFire (Santa Monica, CA) nel mese di gen 2018
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It was a pretty ridiculous process.
Entire process took well over a month.
Applied then scheduled an initial screening with the hr. Went well so scheduled a video interview with a Senior Developer. Lot of questions and an algorithm question. Although I am not very good with algorithm questions I happen to figure it out so did that too. Lasted an hour.
After a week I was scheduled another video interview this time with a Senior Developer in Ukraine. Close to 40 questions technical questions all about PHP, if you good at PHP you should be fine could be tricky at times. This one lasted 1:30.
I felt like I did pretty good so yes I guess got an email requesting an on-site interview. Great I thought at first then when I saw the email; I was like whaaat... it will be 5 hours long (1 hour break). All in all I was going to see 8 people, all engineers and managers. I thought I passed the Technical part of the process and it was going to be for cultural fit etc. but no it was very very Technical. Every person that came in have a printed out papers with questions on them. I was pretty annoyed with this. After the first 4, I was supposed to get a break but nooo. I was put in the CTO’s office. And talked with him for an hour. They will buy you lunch but won’t give you any time to eat. I was able to eat half the sandwich in 5 min before they put me in his office. Anyhow after I went back to the interview room and meet with 4 other engineers 2 at a time. After a lot of question, last one was another brain-teaser/algorithm question. I was pretty angry and annoyed at this point. I was hungry, tired and pretty pissed off. All I wanted was to go home.
Managers seems to have attitude by the way, they won’t smile much.
I really don’t think who they think they are; google fb tweet?? They will buy you lunch but won’t give you anytime to eat. You won’t be given a 5 min down time.
I took a time off from work to be there so I lost one vacation day, I took two extended lunch breaks to talk to them for the video interviews. All in all I probably spent 2 days for absolutely nothing.
I didn’t follow up with them after because I really didn’t care. Since I am pretty easy to read, towards the end they probably saw it in my eyes.
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Seriously so many questions I was asked and now can’t remember. But one of them was something about finding the sum of numbers in an array
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 4 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso CallFire (Los Angeles, CA) nel mese di mag 2017
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It was a long process; taking place over the course of a month. I lived in the Los Angeles area, so your mileage may vary. In hindsight, the process was so long because CallFire is tedious in finding both a candidate that is qualified and a candidate that fits into the company's culture.
I had an initial phone screen which was more of HR pitching the company to me. They were more excited to talk to me than I was to talk to them. I then came in for a short 30-45 minute in-person interview by a group. It was largely comprised of tech questions with culture and career question preceding.
The following week I had a 1-on-1 phone interview with someone unable to be in the area at the time. This was a more open interview about tech in general.
My last set of interviews were with various people in senior management. I received the most interesting interview exercises I have ever been posed in these interviews; I cannot sum them up any better than that.
Overall, the interviews themselves became progressively open-ended. They want you to talk, they want to see that you are thinking, and they are not scared to call your BS. CalllFire has two main things they look for in new employees: culture fit and potential. They want to get to know you, and they want to know that you can grow as opposed to stagnating after knowing everything upon arrival.
Know the fundamentals, be open, be creative, be ready to talk, and your interviews will go well.
The interview process was pretty quick, took about three weeks total starting with the phone and in-person meeting. Overall each co-worker I've met with were great to engage with and the team seems very close, which is great huge plus in any company culture. My experience was very positive.
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