Phone interview with HR. Standard Coding interview. Then a completely ridiculous “mache” interview with peers and a director. In this experience they give you a situation and expect you to “run a meeting” but then “show code”, and “create visualizations” based on this fake experience. While you are “preparing” for the meeting you are also suppose to be running the meeting. I’m sorry - I come to meetings prepared and if you consistently have meetings you are running off the cuff like that, you can make a lot more money by MAKING AN AGENDA. I would never walk into a meeting blind like that. I felt unprepared and overwhelmed by the experience - and it would worry me about the culture if that is the standard to come in and code and make things on the fly and hold someone to a standard. I didn’t get to discuss anything I was actually good at, but you got to see every glimmer of stress I could show because I don’t go to things unprepared. Outside of that it was straight forward and relatively simple.

The initial interview was with HR. I was asked to schedule a day and time that fit my schedule, which was great. During the call, they were up front with the level of the role and the pay-range for it so that no one's time was wasted. I appreciated that a lot. The interview was very casual and focused on the role, team, and client it was with. After that discussion, I was asked to complete a SQL test at my convenience and to let them know when I was done. A few days later I was asked to interview with a couple of the team members. This was much more of a traditional interview, but via Zoom, and was told to allow for 50-60 minutes. I was asked a lot of question about my background and experience and was given the opportunity to ask as many questions as I had. I was a very pleasurable experience from start to finish.