Squarespace·Frontend Engineer

Squarespace Frontend Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

New York, NYPosted May 2016 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My experience felt messy from the start.

On the initial recruiter call, I was supposed to begin at a set time, but the recruiter emailed at the same moment to say he had to reschedule. After I finally connected with him, I took a HackerRank code test and then moved into a phone interview with two developers.

During that call, they had me type code into a shared Google Doc with no normal editor features like indentation or syntax highlighting, and Google’s formatting/autocorrect made the experience awkward. The technical questions also felt a bit impractical for real-world development. One JavaScript challenge was to implement

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