Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un selezionatore. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Color nel mese di gen 2021
Colloquio
Excellent.
Recruiters and recruiting coordinator were fast, thoughtful, helpful, and friendly.
The format was a normal "phone screen" followed quickly after by a day of 4 "onsite" (if they can be called that during video calls) interviews, 2 coding and 2 system design.
The first two onsites felt like softballs to me, and I spent lunch fretting about their hiring bar, but things picked up in the afternoon and got more exciting.
Interviewers were courteous, practiced, and clearly loved their work and their jobs.
Color seems like a great place to work, and the people I talked to during the day of interviews and followup phone calls were all rad.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
Decline to state. Proliferation of interview questions that are expensive to develop well hurts companies' ability to assess candidates for fit.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 2 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Color
Colloquio
Standard recruiter screen
Second call with hiring manager: very bad experience here. HM had to be interrogated on the actual team composition before revealing the other 4 team members were around the country and working remote but that this position would have to come into office at Burlingame location (even tried to sell me a line about how great it would be to collaborate with other teams and leadership). Then tried to downlevel me to a more junior role despite seeing my experience and got offended when I suggested that maybe being in-person with the rest of the actual company could translate into more opportunities for me after a year. Ghosted me after that session.
From recruiter description rest of process was standard technical screen than a full onsite round.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
HM asked me about some past projects and whether I had any aspirations beyond the position level being hired for (senior engineer)
One HR call, followed by a one hour coding interview.
The problem I got was the same Painter implementation everyone else seems to be getting. I got it working, passed all test cases, with some time to spare.
The next day I got a rejection email. I asked the recruiter if they can provide any feedback and they said it's company policy to not provide any feedback. What?
Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un selezionatore. La procedura ha richiesto una settimana. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Color nel mese di giu 2022
Colloquio
Was reached out to by an external recruiter for Color multiple times. Talked to a hiring manager and then was sent for the coding challenge.
Had the barebones correct but couldn't get this dumb conversion they wanted. Even proposed an alternate solution.
Compiler was SUPER slow (>1 min) and that really screwed up my interview. Interviewer acknowledged that but continued to ask me to compile the code. He was "totally shocked" at how slow it was which i found pretty unprofessional. Like your tools for interviewing should work properly for a (basically) timed test or my pseudocode should be acceptable.
Was sent a denial email almost a week later with the standard rejection.