I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Checkbox (Australia)
Interview
Initial phone chat with in-house recruiter (the recruiter keeps up updated regularly within a day)
Get to know company, and role
Interview with engineer head
In person chat, technical know-how, meet and greet
Technical interview with a lead
System design
Culture interview with founder
General chat about the company and my history
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
System design questions (build a flow, show how a process would work, get thrown edge cases, etc)
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Checkbox (Australia) in Sept 2024
Interview
Interviewed with the co-founders and completed the take home exercise with presentation. Questions were focused around situations and how I'd handle them. Views on the structure of CS teams, etc.
1. Screen with co-founder
2. Take home exercise
3 Presentation
4. Follow up call
Overall: I'd never work for this company. Spent several hours and received positive feedback from the co-founders just to get GHOSTED. Stay away from Check Box
I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Checkbox (Australia) in Sept 2024
Interview
Ended up having no feedback after 3rd round. Waste of my time.
1st round with one of the founders to go through the general HR questions.
2nd round with a take home code challenge to complete a fullstack project with both FE and BE required. I took 2 days to ensure it's well polished and get all the `nice to have` features delivered as well.
It came back with quite quick follow up with 3rd round. There were 2 engineers interviewing me, with all questions trying to drill down deep into the tech details and system design. I suppose I answered most of them with quite confident answers.
Then I got ghosted without any feedback for 3 weeks, I suppose it's a NO but I could never tell as I did not hear anything back from them afterwards.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me the area of your strenth that are most proud of.