ShipBob·Software Engineer

ShipBob Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Chicago, ILPosted Mar 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first step was over the phone, and it included a screen share along with a classic coding problem style question.

After that, the process shifted into what felt like a rougher technical segment: a HackerRank test that was oddly disastrous and also ran very fast, which put me on the back foot.

I ran into a couple of friction points during that test—some performance issues with how it executed and limitations that prevented using standard libraries like the typical async utilities. It then moved into a UI-related challenge that sounded straightforward at first, but it was constrained to vanilla JavaScript and didn’t allow me to rely on anything from the usual framework ecosystem. The result was the UI

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