Stage Purpose What to Expect Time / Format
1. Application & Resume Screening To check if your background matches the job description in terms of skills, experience, and education. HR / recruiting team reviews your resume; you may fill out additional questions (e.g. your interest, notice period). ~1 week after application (can vary)
2. Initial HR / Recruiter Call To assess general fit, talk about your motivation, availability, compensation expectations, and give you an overview of the role and the company. ~30 min call. General questions (“Tell us about yourself,” “Why IntimiTec?”), your career goals, basic personal details. Opportunity for you to ask questions too. 20-45 minutes, video or phone
3. Technical Screening To evaluate your core technical skills relevant to the role — coding, system design, domain knowledge, etc. Could be a remote coding test, take-home assignment, or live coding via screen share. Also some technical questions about past work. ~1 hour; or take-home assignment with a deadline (few hours to a day)
4. Manager / Domain Expert Interview To dig deeper into domain-specific knowledge, your experience, and to check how you'd handle real problems.Also to evaluate your problem solving, thinking, and technical design. Interview with a senior engineer / manager. Might include: design questions, solving ambiguous problems, discussion of past projects, possibly white-boarding or live coding. ~1 hour
5. Behavioral / Culture Fit Interview To check alignment with company culture, values (e.g. integrity, privacy, empathy, user-sensitivity), communication, teamwork, etc. Questions about how you handled conflicts, times you took ownership, worked in a team, learned from mistakes. Maybe scenario questions (what would you do if…). ~30-60 minutes
6. Final / Leadership Round For more senior roles or key hires: validate your overall fit with company strategy and leadership, map your contributions to company’s future plans. May be with the CTO, VP, or a cross-functional panel. They might focus on strategic thinking, roadmap alignment, long-term vision, how you’d scale things, etc. ~30-60 minutes
7. Offer / Negotiation If all goes well, the company makes an offer. You may negotiate. HR will send offer details (salary, benefits, role expectations). You can ask questions, negotiate. Once both sides agree, onboarding begins.