Me postulé en línea. El proceso tomó 2 días. Acudí a una entrevista en Toptal (Praga) en feb 2016
Entrevista
(1). Short call with recruiter, discussed salary expectations - I asked for 25 USD per hour.
(2). 3x ACM - level tasks on Hackerrank to be solved in 90 minutes. I was participating in ACM before, I sometimes can solve those riddles quite fast, but I just did not expect to be presented such a test for a plain simple developer position.
(3). Solved one task and a half. :( Ran out of time.
(4). Then I was told that the score is too low for the salary I asked for.
(5). In the year 2020, four years later, I still cannot reapply, as TopTal remembers me and says "unfortunately, you were already filtered out".
Summary:
(1). Nice to apply as a wild bet.
(2). Don't expect it will work out. Take it as one day wasted on just another unofficial ACM contest. Unofficial - means even if you solve all the tasks better than everyone else, you don't get any medal or recognition.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Given a square chessboard of N x N size, the position of Knight and position of a target is given. We need to find out minimum steps a Knight will take to reach the target position.
Tech screening and then tech interview, leetcode style questions. Then there was a take home project.. not in-person. all done remotely and online. Good interviewers, helpful, easy process and good communication
I applied to Toptal and I'm having an interview days later. What can I prepare for now? I wanna get some details or tips from you. Please help me with your toptal screening interview experience.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
What was the last project you have worked on and what did you do in that project?
4 step interview. small hr call , then technical interview with 3 easy-medium problems. third step was project and after that another call with hr. overall not hard to pass
