I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Blindside (Germany) (Berlin) in Jun 2022
Interview
The first step after my application was an at-home-task, without having introduced myself to anyone at the company personally. for an intern position it was also ridiculously hard: make a video streaming platform, where a user can watch videos and leave comments and gets recommended other videos on the video page. in 4 hours. oh it should also have authentication. i had a lot of time on my hands and wanted to build something like this anyway, so i did. in about 3 days. the next step was a call where we briefly spoke about my task a bit and then got offered a ca. 400€ per month contract with weekly feedback rounds.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Blindside (Germany) in Jun 2022
Interview
The first step is not "to know each other" but the tech task. Boom...
Classical crapy task:
- they expect you to do it in 4 hours
- even with the doubled time it's pretty hard to do task in a good way
So the are a few logical questions:
- why do they force devs to do crap?
- do they really want to review a crappy code?
- or do they want devs to spend more time than requested?
No alternative (for this task) was proposed.
Also, they respond suuuuuuuper slowly. Not sure they deserve to call themself a "startup".
As a resume: I do not recommend even applying. Do not waste your time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Coding Challenge (Invest 4 hours to solve the challenge.)
Create a UI to browse videos. The UI will have the following requirements:
You can leave comments on the video
Comments can be toggled on/off
Related videos should be shown on the video UI
And overview page of all videos should be shown
The system should be protected by a login
You can make the following assumptions
Videos should be loaded as persisted data (Do not use Youtube)
Comments should not be saved
Login should authenticate against a separate service
