Domande poste durante i colloqui presso Unbabel

Candidatura

Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto più di 4 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Unbabel (New York, NY (Stati Uniti d'America)) a agosto 2018.

Colloquio

Initial interview and a technical challenge.
The technical challenge take 2 weeks, so you need to expend a nice portion of time, but unfortunaly, when they dont want hire you, they dont give feedback. Total lack of respect for candidate time.

The challenge for backend is a fullstack challenge, what isn't the best approach.

Candidatura

Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un selezionatore. La procedura ha richiesto 3 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Unbabel (San Francisco, CA (Stati Uniti d'America)) a agosto 2019.

Colloquio

1 Recruiter Screen. 1 Hiring Manager Screen. 4 Onsite Interviews w/ The Executives. Team Lunch. It was a great experience. The Unbabel Team really wanted to get to know me as a person along with my skills set and potential contribution. The Team lunch was the icing on the cake. They are a family. I'm disappointed that it wasn't an exact fit.

Candidatura

Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 2 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Unbabel (Lisbona (Portogallo)) a marzo 2019.

Colloquio

I had an interview with HR, a challenge and an interview with the Editorial Team Leader.

I did not pass to a last round, but the whole process was really fast.

The recruiter was very communicative and thorough and kind with her feedback.

I would recommend Unbabel

Candidatura

Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 2 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Unbabel (Lisbona (Portogallo)) a marzo 2019.

Colloquio

First call with the recruiter, we talked mainly about the company's culture. (30 minutes)

After that, I was given a homework challenge with a 7-day deadline. The challenge was not very difficult to meet, but it took me some time to complete it properly, as they asked me for a detailed report.

Once the challenge was over, a second interview was held with a site reliability engineer, they asked me about my latest professional experiences, about the challenge, they were very satisfied with my work. The interview was very positive and lasted about 60 minutes.

The final interview was with the principal engineer, the interview lasted no more than 45 minutes. The interlocutor seemed in a hurry and this did not make me comfortable during the process. The question was about troubleshooting the infrastructure, I answered most of them. At the end of the interview, I asked a question about the part of the time that could be spent on software development for a site reliability engineer. He decided to give me a new challenge to test my development skills, which I accepted.

The last challenge was about data science, I was no exception, as my training in infrastructure engineering and development skills were mainly oriented towards scripting or API development.

I finally finished the challenge, I wasn't very confident in my work but I was very curious to at least get the solution excepted.

I received the classic answer from the recruiter who said that it wasn't the perfect match, blah, blah.......
She also told me that I could get a more detailed feedback, if I want. (Of course I want to! I barely worked 3 days on challenges at home.)

Here is the mail response from the company in all its integrity: "I had the feeling that your challenge was not so strong, so the team would prefer not to go ahead with you for the role of SRE."

Seriously?

I have had a lot of fun dealing with these challenges and I do not regret every minutes taking them, because I learned new things. I just found that it is a total lack of respect for candidates to not provide any feedback regarding the time they have spent so far.

So before you interview at Unbabel, be clear with yourself that you will never get feedback from your work.

Candidatura

Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 3 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Unbabel (Lisbona (Portogallo)) a luglio 2017.

Colloquio

Long process, met with the whole team I was going to work for - very different and detailed - they try to understand besides technical capability if you are a culture fit and at times it was a bit disorganized. Interviews are informal and casual but serious. Depends a lot on the person interview. I had one that lasted for over 1.5 hours.

Candidatura

Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 2 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Unbabel.

Colloquio

I was recruited and contacted for a video interview. Then, I was offered to complete the second stage of the hiring process, which was a "linguistics challenge" to describe the importance of linguistic resources for translations, and to create a term base for their company to support customer emails. This assignment took over a day to complete with high-level detail and effort. I had questions about the project, because many parts were not related to the position, and was not provided a response to clarify this until days later. I revised my project again and sent it in. I quickly received a decline email, stating that the term base translation activity was not detailed enough, even though I am not a translator, nor did I present myself as bilingual. This position does not require an applicant to be a qualified translator, yet the assignment required native-level translations. While the experience with the recruiter was very pleasant, ultimately it was disappointing to take a full day to build the "hypothetical" resources for this company's support team, and then quickly be told that my 7-page assignment lacked detail.

Candidatura

Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 3 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Unbabel a gennaio 2019.

Colloquio

well actually I didn't really had a real interview with recruiter of Unbabel.
she booked time with me initially but later asked for rescheduling the online interview.
but since we started to get in touch from middle of Dec, lots of holidays, and she replied late and without exactly real meeting time scheduled, which means I'm the one always waiting.
very funny thing is in the beginning of Jan, she inform me: thank you for interested in us.
Excuse me?
then after i replied the email, she said that we are still interested in your profile but with other position..
really unprofessional and it seems that they don't know how to communicate well with candidates.
very bad interview experience i had with Unbabel.

Candidatura

Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Unbabel (Lisbona (Portogallo)) a luglio 2017.

Colloquio

Interview was done in 3 stages - 1st was very short, just 15 mins by Skype, I would name it "adequacy check", 2nd was with peers in the office for 40-50 minutes, 3rd was with CTO + CEO for 10-15 mins each followed by the offer very shortly.

In general recruitment process is very different from my previous experience. When I read position description I was having mixed feelings - it doesn't have useless info or information pointing on hidden structural/organisational issues. It was very simple, short and clear. And when you follow the recruitment process you find it very transparent and clear - you know after each step if you pass it and what and when will be the next step. Unbabel is playing in a high league of companies you would dream to join, trying to be outstanding in everything they do and that makes them so different from other companies.

Candidatura

Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 2 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Unbabel (Londra, Inghilterra (Regno Unito)) a settembre 2018.

Colloquio

30 minute interview with head of HR. He was very friendly, wavering on a bit casual...a fair bit of yawning for instance. He had a list of questions, which were easy to answer. I got through the interview round, was then sent a challenge: "Write value proposition for landing page for travel". The example given was a scroll page. Got very blunt feedback on that.

Colloquio

It was the first interview, just to know me better.
What I did, what I want. What is the type of this job. those kind of questions.
The interviewers were very kind .