1st call with recruiter and then take home test. Recruiter was good, but the take home test experience was absolutely horrible.
Not only they expect to spend a whole day working on this, they also expect you to spin up cloud services with your own money.
To top of all that you are expected to share keys of object storage , great security.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Rearc in Jul 2024
Interview
The process took 2 months
Step 1: Screening Interview with a Recruiter (1h)
Step 2: Technical Assessment (I had an excellent score). (2 days 9am-5pm)
Step 3: Technical Interview (Positive feedback answering every single question) (2h)
Step 4: Rearc Cultural Interview with HR (Went well) (1h)
Step 5: Panel Interview (Answered every technical question) (90mins)
The decision making process seems very subjective, The feedback is referring to the technical skills which i was already tested on multiple times (Assessment and technical interviews)
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Rearc (New York, NY) in Feb 2023
Interview
The recruiter will give you a laundry list of all the reasons Rearc is an engineer's dream to work for. After an initial conversation with HR, they'll provide an exercise that should take 4 hours" to complete (according to them). They explain doing "everything in the exercise is not a guarantee that you will pass". I did everything, it took me about 4 work days total work days to complete. The exercise uses a few things like nodejs that I needed to take some time to better understand before working on the solution. I hit all the deliverables and everything was automated and carefully documented. I made the mistake of thinking they would give me the courtesy of a conversation to discuss what I did and why if I did everything the exercise asked for. Instead of that, they just gave feedback that wasn't accurate. Referred to technology and configurations that weren't part of my solution and then added a few comments like "They obviously don't understand the benefits of x technology", and "most of this is manual" when all of it was automated. I got the impression they either didn't bother to look at my solution carefully enough to understand how it worked or they didn't bother to write accurate feedback. I found it to be a little rude to ask for a candidate to spend time to be hired for them if they aren't willing to match the candidate's effort. I wish I would have known they weren't going to be as thoughtful and detail-oriented as I was before I spent any time at all with their hiring process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They explained we can't share it so I'll respect that.
