I applied in-person. I interviewed at CloudScale (San Francisco, CA) in Mar 2023
Interview
Very personable, more informal questions around how ones thinks about the solution and less about particular coding syntax or frameworks, etc. I knew some of the members of the team so that made it much easier.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is your greatest victory in a more technically complex scenario?
I applied online. I interviewed at CloudScale in Feb 2020
Interview
It started off with a phone screening with Bill from HR. He is very to the point and will not waste your time, which I greatly appreciated. There was then a technical interview with Mike, who asked me questions to gauge my general knowledge of development followed by a couple of coding problems in javascript. There was then a final interview with both the lead UX dev Patrick and Mike. They asked questions to gauge my soft skills and how much experience I have working with designers. Overall it was a great interview process! Even though I did not get an offer, I learned a lot from this experience and was impressed by how professional everyone was.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me a time you had difficult customer requirements and how you handled it.
I applied online. I interviewed at CloudScale (Indianapolis, IN) in Feb 2021
Interview
Applied via LinkedIn. The first outreach was about 7 days later. The entire interview process, end-to-end, was just over a week.
The first step was a pre-screen questionnaire that was a good mix of holistic and skill-based questions. It's a good place to speak to or elaborate on previous experience.
This was followed by a quick pre-screen interview with the company's HR representative who was my guide through the entire process and gatekeeper to successive interviews.
My technical interview was scheduled for 60 minutes but ran over quite a bit. It was one of the better technical interviews I had over the course of my job search and the interviewer provided helpful feedback along the way. Everything was practical in nature and the questions were focused on programming & architecture. I was able to lean on my experience but I do wish I had covered some refresher material beforehand, regardless.
The final interview was with one of the founders of the company and was focused on professional interactions between stakeholders and other teams in an organization.
The in-between interviews with the HR rep were very helpful and were a good way to sort out anything you felt shakey about in the previous interview. It definitely felt like there was an attempt to get to know me both personally and professionally.
A final note: Expectations for the interview process are clearly laid out up front and then reinforced after each round. Follow the directions, review what's in the job description, and you will do just fine.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
"Looking at this piece of code, do you know what the output of this would be?"
"Describe the working relationship with a particular group at your company and what that process looked like."