I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at EvolutionIQ
Interview
The first step was the recruiter screen, which included a fast 15 min coding problem. Then came coding rounds with engineers. The problems I received involved using dicts, recursion, arrays. For some reason I was given a lot of React problems. Maybe they saw I used to do a lot of UI and meant to make it easy, but I had been only practicing LC and system design since I'm interviewing with OpenAI. From Q&A it sounded like they did >= 80% frontend so it could be that interview panel.
I had a recruiter screen with a live coding challenge (LeetCode easy level) and an interview with the hiring manager.
HM looked bored. He read me three questions, I answered them, and offered, "I also had to solve challenge X while doing Y, we can dive deeper into that if you want".
No follow-up questions have been asked. Not even acknowledgment of an answer, like "ok, sounds good". The guy just kept reading.
10 minutes into a 30-minute interview, he said, "If you don't have questions for me, we can end it here".
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Standard behavioral questions: Hardest tech challenge you solved, conflict with a coworker, etc.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at EvolutionIQ in Feb 2025
Interview
I interviewed with EvolutionIQ in February 2025 after a recruiter reached out via LinkedIn. The first round was a recruiter screen with a coding question at the end. The recruiter didn't seem technical and only seemed to care about the solution producing correct results, but I solved it optimally.
The next round was a system design round where I was also asked some behavioral questions. The system design part was straightforward, focusing on tradeoffs and different ways the system could be designed, as well as follow-ups around different problem constraints and how they affect the architecture.
About a week afterward, I received a rejection email with no feedback whatsoever, and the recruiter did not respond to requests for feedback.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Talk about a complex problem you managed to tackle.
- How do you manage disagreements at work?
- What kind of technical problems are you most excited about?