Speechify·Software Engineer

Speechify Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United KingdomPosted Oct 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The process for me kicked off in a very automated way—an email told me I’d been selected and pushed me straight toward the loop without much human context about the role.

The first real shock came when I tried to schedule the take-home challenge. The moment I clicked through, I found that my screen, camera, and microphone would be recorded.

What bothered me wasn’t the idea of preventing cheating so much as the fact that the recording requirement felt invasive and wasn’t clearly disclosed in the earlier messages or the documentation I saw. I also wasn’t given a real intro call to even get context before consenting to an unknown telemetry-style setup on my system. Between that lack of transparency and the immediate jump into a timed take-home, it started to

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