Slack·Software Engineer

Slack Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

Toronto, ONPosted Nov 2020 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The first call I had was a standard recruiter phone screen where we talked about my experience matching what they were looking for.

The recruiter experience was positive, and then there was a bit of delay getting the second interview scheduled. When I finally met the engineer, I was given a set of topics to cover and told we’d be discussing my past projects.

What actually happened felt like a verbal quiz. The engineer asked question after question for about an hour about computer science concepts, and there wasn’t much room to dig into my projects like I expected. I also noticed that he seemed to agree with everything I said, which made it hard to tell whether I was answering the way he wanted. At one point, I went off

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