Etsy·Software Engineer

Etsy Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Brooklyn, NYPosted Oct 2012 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first contact came from a recruiter after I sent in my resume, but the communication was slow and inconsistent.

After weeks of coordinating, I got the details for a phone interview, and after that they wanted to bring me in for an onsite.

The travel ask really threw me off at the time. I was instructed to purchase my plane ticket and then get reimbursed later. I’d never been asked by another company to front travel expenses, so it became a sticking point. After I declined, the would-be supervisor reached out and apologized, and the onsite was scheduled only after travel was handled differently.

The onsite itself was better. It was a back-to-back series of about seven interviews, including a more

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