Slack·Software Engineer

Slack Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Boston, MAPosted Oct 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My early rounds felt short and unusually abrupt.

One recruiter call barely got started—there was just a quick question about my front-end experience, and within minutes the conversation ended. I tried to ask follow-ups, but the recruiter didn’t seem interested, and shortly after I got an email saying they weren’t moving forward.

In another recruiter screen, the emphasis was very specific: they focused on whether I had experience handling extremely high request rates for API/backend services (1,000+ requests per second). It came across as a hard gate—if I didn’t have that, I wouldn’t get past the phone interview, and they made that clear in

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