I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at JetFuel (San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2022
Interview
I applied and then they sent me a take-home React assessment. It seemed very ambitious for the 3-hour time allotment. I didn't finish it all, but they still got in touch with me to move forward with the interview process.
There was a 30-minute phone screen, and then later a series of technical interviews.
I was told ahead of time that the live coding portion of the interview would be in pure React. I made a point of asking if any other libraries or frameworks would be used and was told no. But when I did this part of the interview, it consisted almost entirely of setting up a Redux store, even though Redux was never mentioned either in the job description or as an answer to any of my questions about what the interview or the position would consist of.
I thought there were an awful lot of backend/database architecture questions for a frontend developer interview.
Also, I was told to prepare for a "product interview" by choosing a mobile app I was familiar with and preparing answers to questions about monetization, user adoption, churn, etc. This never came up in the actual interview even though I prepared for it, and I thought it was odd that these questions were part of a developer interview anyway.
I didn't hear anything back until 3 business days after the day which I was told I'd hear by "at the latest".
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is flattening?
What is throttling?
Describe how you'd build bit.ly
1) Recruiter Screen. The guy was hard to get ahold of, he kept pushing back the date. The first appointment he didn't even show up and had to make it up.
2) I had a choice for either React or Node. I picked their React assessment. The assessment consisted of a mobile responsive mock-up with some images, video, and some mock data.
Afterward, the recruiter said he'll pass it around for feedback and back to me. After numerous follow-ups, I had no response. I was completely ghosted. On the phone, the recruiter sounds positive and upbeat but in reality, he doesn't follow through with his words.
Referred to assessment from Hatchways, lots of talk online that this is a scam that inevitably leads you to them recommending a $6000 course to help you be job ready.