Slack·Backend Engineer

Slack Backend Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

PunePosted Jun 2020 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My experience was dominated by a sense of disregard, especially from HR after I completed the work.

In one timeline, I was given a take-home or coding-style task focused on SQL using a limited Slack.db PostgreSQL dataset. The questions were fairly straightforward—write a query and then run it in a programmatic way—and I felt like I was doing what was expected. Still, even if I performed well, HR went silent afterward and the follow-up sounded like a generic “we’re not proceeding” without any meaningful feedback.

Another part of what I went through left me equally frustrated: I received an email asking for portfolio links and additional information, I replied quickly and followed up a few

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