I applied online. I interviewed at Thought Industries (New York, NY) in Aug 2020
Interview
Initial phone call with the recruiter, and then a phone call with lead developer, and finally a take-home code challenge of SpaceX launches: 2 bugs, 2 frontend tasks (React) and 1 backend task (GraphQL) for SpaceX GraphQL API.
Heard from the recruiter about their pursing other candidates in the following day after I completed the take-home code challenge. I asked any feedback in the email, but no feedback was provided. Very unprofessional! I felt like they just wanted candidates to solve some technical issues they encounter in the codebase without paying for our work! Stay away if they ask you to do the code challenge!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. What do you know about Thought Industries?
2. Why do you use GraphQL?
3. SpaceX just launched a new GraphQL API, and we thought it would be exciting to use that API to visualize all of their launches on a single page.
We built this out and it works OK, but it has a few issues and could use some love. That's where you come in!