I applied online. I interviewed at Expensify.com (Portland, OR) in Apr 2024
Interview
5 interviews in total, and the 5th was a full-day interview that consisted of numerous group and individual interviews. My first was to build a game of Snake in JS live in front of 13 people. Then the next interview was with all of the people who watched me build the game of Snake. Some asked me standard interview questions (what would you have done differently, etc.), but a couple were asking me interview trivia questions, which felt very "gotcha". I did not make it through the full-day interview. Overall, I had a good experience in all of the previous interviews, but this last one was the worst interview experience I've ever had.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is a tuple? How could this have been used in the game you created?
I applied through other source. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Expensify.com (Portland, OR)
Interview
After the initial screen with the manager, I was give a take-home challenge, which I submitted after a couple weeks.
The challenge was to create a basic web application using PHP, JavaScript and the Expensify API (with no page refreshes), which allows a user to: authenticate to an account, download existing transactions, and create new transactions. Part of the challenge was dealing with an incomplete or ambiguous specification. I had to host the finished solution such as AWS or Heroku.
I submitted my solution, but it was rejected because I was told that my solution was over-engineered and that I use single line functions. Most of the feedback I received was nitpicking not about substantial issues. It was mostly about subjective issues like using single-line function, leaving unnecessary comments, etc. It was just a complete waste of my time, where I spent two weeks preparing the simple web application.
The process is lengthy but it was god experience. They even give you feedback which is great learning process. They focus on your goal in life and how it can contribute towards company goal.
First round with a recruiter. Next round is a take-home assignment to build a full web app. Built it out to spec only to be told that data security wasn't ideal. That was pretty out of scope for this sort of project, because they didn't provide shared resources to host something more secure.