Fetch·Backend Engineer

Fetch Backend Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United StatesPosted Dec 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The process began with an at-home assessment that asked for a production-level version of something “Fetch-like” but scaled down.

The time window felt tight, and there wasn’t a lot of room for missteps. Once I submitted, I went straight into a code review phase.

That review felt jarring—no small talk, no introductions, and very little sense of any human pacing. It was direct and procedural, with the conversation quickly cutting to what they wanted to verify. I spent most of the time talking and explaining rather than getting a comfortable back-and-forth.

On top of that, the later interview stage that I experienced pushed things further: there were multiple rounds scheduled to mimic a real workday, and at least one

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