I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at DocSend (San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2021
Interview
It was a basic interview process. Recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn.
- Initial phone screen with Recruiter
- Casual get to know each other round with a team member, mostly behavioral questions.
- Some design question with an Engineer
I didn't get past this and not sure what their expectations were since I got a standard reject email. If I recall correctly, the next steps included a take home/onsite.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Behavioral and OOP design questions involving some database queries
The recruiter was really nice, but it came to a complete stop when they requested a 'homework assignment' on how to fix/improve THEIR product. After taking the time to provide them free consultation and free work, they completely ignore you. I highly suspect foul play, especially because their current PMs are lacking inspiration on how to actually innovate.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Take home assignment was to improve their onboarding experience.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at DocSend (San Francisco, CA) in Dec 2019
Interview
I had an open-ended phone chat with the CTO. It went well.
A week later, I had a technical phone interview, which I bombed.
They have a great developer culture. Devs are responsible for quality: No dedicated QA. They actually hire juniors and train them. I missed a great opportunity.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Don't want to spoil their interview, but there were no LeetCode-style riddles.
I had to do very simple things that I do all the time in Rails, like make endpoints, design classes, and so forth.
If you normally copy-paste your company's code and make necessary changes so you don't have to write boilerplate, stop doing that for a bit before interviewing here. Lesson learned.
The job posting didn't mention jQuery and I was asked a jQuery question, though the recruiter told me that I'd be asked about it in the technical interview a week beforehand so I should have been prepared.