Motive·Backend Engineer

Motive Backend Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Vancouver, BCPosted Oct 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I experienced a surprisingly long and logistically messy process.

Hiring for Vancouver went through an external HR layer, which meant I had to coordinate with extra people just to get calls scheduled. It wasn’t just slow—it also added overhead to every communication.

The steps started with a recruiter phone screen that didn’t go well because of the interviewer’s attitude. Then I was sent a HackerRank take-home test that included multiple choice questions and coding prompts, followed by another phone screen with a hiring manager. After that, I had a one-hour paired technical assignment on CoderPad, and the final stage was a four-hour onsite technical

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