Slack·Software Engineer

Slack Software Engineer interview experience

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Pittsburgh, PAPosted May 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a quick recruiter call, then about a week later I had a longer technical interview with the hiring manager that lasted around an hour.

The questions felt pretty standard and framed like design prompts—something along the lines of designing an API for a set of functions and inputs. After that, I was given a take-home exercise that turned out to be a PR review. I submitted it the same day I received it, then waited for the response.

I heard back within three days that they weren’t moving forward. What surprised me most was that they didn’t share feedback on the take-home as a matter of policy, which made the whole process feel a bit frustrating—especially because the rest of the loop had gone smoothly enough for me to expect

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