I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 8 weeks. I interviewed at OPENLANE in Dec 2023
Interview
Applied through external recruitment firm LHH (they're terrible BTW).
Basic screening from recruiters who have no clue what they're asking for.
Then 4 weeks of crickets in the background.
Then coding and system design interview. People I've met in this interview were nice but it was weird that they didn't have any environment prepared for coding or board for systems design. I had to come up with something on the spot. It was not communicated beforehand.
Then it was final interview with other two people. One was okay, other one was very cocky poker-face know-it-all type of emotional vampire. Mostly poked into my past experience and asked basic questions about about software development.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at OPENLANE in Nov 2024
Interview
A recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn in about a job they thought I'd be a great fit for. I agreed to do a short call with them.
They described their company in 2 sentences, rather than asking me about my experience or relevant work, they dove straight into a university style pop quiz.
I was very put off, I wanted to hear more about the company, the job, why they reached out, etc. I ended the call after about 5 of these pop quiz style questions and revoked my interest in the interview process and ended the call early.
One too many red flags for me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a serverless state.
Describe the process between the client app and the server.
Something about dependency injections.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at OPENLANE (Toronto, ON) in Jan 2024
Interview
The first round involves solving a LeetCode-style question with team members in a pair programming setting, discussing the solution and its time and space complexity.
The second round is an open-ended discussion based on your experience, which can be challenging as you may not know exactly what they are looking for.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain your technical solution time and space complexity?