Etsy·Software Engineer

Etsy Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Feb 2020 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After applying, I went through an online HackerRank coding challenge where I was given existing JavaScript and had to modify or extend it to make an app work.

The whole vibe felt a bit different from the “standard” coding platforms I was used to, and the focus leaned more toward front-end style tasks even though the role I was aiming for felt full-stack in my head.

If I did well, the next step was supposed to be a quick recruiter touchpoint and then more technical conversation, and that sequence was pretty common in my timeline: at some point I ended up doing a recruiter overview call, followed by a technical phone interview with coding questions on a browser environment. The technical conversation was fairly ordinary in structure, but it left me

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