Slack·Software Engineer

Slack Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

San Francisco, CAPosted Jun 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The first thing that hit me was how long it took and how little I actually got to talk to engineers during the process.

It stretched over about three months of email negotiation without real conversations with developers, and it felt wildly unprofessional compared to how other companies I’d applied to handled scheduling and updates.

In that time, my questions and even yes/no logistics often took two weeks to get a response, or never came at all. I was repeatedly told things looked good, and then the status flipped with no activity in between. Several times I received the same “we’re looking at it and will get back to you” message without any follow-up afterward. What made it worse was that when I applied for

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