Slack·Software Engineer

Slack Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

AustraliaPosted Apr 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first round was a general HR discussion, and the second round was another conversation focused on whether my skills matched what they needed.

During that second discussion, I was honestly thrown off because the interview questions felt completely unrelated to the job profile I’d applied for.

It got more frustrating as the mismatch became clear: the role description I saw was centered on DevSecOps, but nothing about incident response showed up in the posting. I questioned why I was being evaluated on something that sounded like a different specialization, and I even followed up with HR to flag that the questions weren’t aligned with what I’d applied for. I never got a response.

Overall, the whole process felt disappointing and

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