Algolia Full Stack Engineer interview experience (2017)

Algolia Full Stack Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

ParisPosted Mar 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a recruiter video call, and it immediately felt like they were trying to understand both my skills and how I’d communicate—our conversation was in English even though we were both native French speakers.

The next day I had another video interview with two developers. They focused on the issues I’d handled in PHP, what I’d built in recent projects, and why I chose certain frameworks, and they also checked knowledge areas like common design patterns.

After that, I got a link to a technical test and was given whatever time I felt necessary to complete it and send it back. I ended up spending around a couple of weeks’ worth of evenings and days on it—about eighteen hours total across nine days—then shared my GitHub repo. They responded with detailed feedback explaining why my submission wasn’t

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