Me postulé en línea. El proceso tomó 2 meses. Acudí a una entrevista en Zendesk (Dublín, Dublín) en ene 2021
Entrevista
I was contacted by a Technical Recruiter then a week later I spoke with the Hiring Manager. We talked about my experiences and what the company and role was about. Then I was told I would need to do technical skills review with their team which went on for about about 5-6 hours, I had breaks in between the interview. After that, I got an email stating that I need to do 3 more home tests to do. I had a few difficulties with these home test however the hiring manager was really helpful about it.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
There will be a technical skills review with their team as well as 3 Home test tasks to do.
Me postulé en línea. El proceso tomó 2 meses. Acudí a una entrevista en Zendesk (San Francisco, CA) en may 2017
Entrevista
Online application with a phone call screen follow up and then connection into the development and engineering team. In person interview once you pass the phone calls. Then after the in person there is a list of tasks for a take home portion to test your skill. The take home portion consists of the most work where you have to "skin" a zendesk and install some custom apps, as well as, create a custom app yourself.
This interview process was by far the most unprofessional in all of my life. For the phone process, when it came time to have a call with the manager, he was only interested in evaluating code skills via shared screen/app. When it came time to ask questions he was not interested in drawing a clear picture of the team and work, seemed in a hurry to jump off the phone.
When brought in for in person, it was a 4-5 hour interview with 4-5 different people. The first of which were great and fun, but last came the manager. He had 0 prepared questions and literally asked the same things as on the phone. He was constantly distracted by his phone and complaining about his job and personal life... FREQUENT use of swear words, completely idiotic actually... I kept it cool though, his team was interesting enough for me to see past his
unprofessionalism, and I had to drive a lot of the conversation by relating to his personal and work issues...
For the take home portion, the tasks were presented in plain text in an email with 0 formatting and typos. I also later discovered that key steps involving bugs on their platform were left out. Whether this was intentional or not for evaluation purposes is unclear.
After all that work and 2 months, I got a generic email saying they are moving on with others, my work remains.
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Pregunta 1
how to turn a phrase like "zendesk" into "z.e.n.d.e.s.k" using JS
Build a custom app using a third party API to leverage specific situations and circumstances that are listed as requirements and integrate it into zendesk.
Me postulé a través de un reclutador. El proceso tomó 3 días. Acudí a una entrevista en Zendesk (San Francisco, CA) en abr 2016
Entrevista
I had a good experience with the recruiter who then asked me to talk to an engineer for the technical phone screen. The engineer for my technical screen did not call me at the appointed time, and after waiting for 10 minutes, had to contact the recruiter. By the time the engineer called me, more than 20 minutes had passed which left me with less than 25 min for the interview. To make matters worse, the engineer seemed to rush through the interview and reception on the engineer's side was terrible. I spent the most of the interview asking him to move instead of coding, and had trouble hearing him for the majority of the interview. Very unprofessional and disappointing experience.
