Basis Technologies Interview Questions
& Process

This was a terrible interview experience, honestly the worst. It felt like they overwork their employees because I was asked a lot of different types of questions. When I mentioned using AI for some tasks, they told me I shouldn't if I want to learn, which made me wonder how I'd learn anything if I'm overworked. The recruiter didn't tell me what to prepare for any of the interviews, so I was going in blind. The hiring manager kept interrupting and changing the rules for the coding question, not being clear about what was allowed. It felt like he was making up rules as we went, and he rudely asked if I learned things in college, which was almost a decade ago, questioning the relevance of AI and coding interviews. I did pass this interview somehow and moved on without being told anything about the next round. I was given another coding problem, then another, then another, followed by SQL questions, which was confusing as I didn't think I was interviewing for a data role. The number of coding questions felt excessive, especially asking similar tasks in different languages and trivial syntax questions. The second interviewer seemed disengaged, possibly doing something else, which was noticeable and discouraging. Right after that, I had another interview with someone who kept interrupting me and repeating questions, making it unclear if I should be high-level or specific. She wouldn't let me explain fully and reacted negatively, like 'Okay...' or raising eyebrows, without constructive feedback. It was a discouraging 2 hours, and I realized within 40 minutes that I didn't want to work at Basis Technologies anymore. All three interviews I've had with them have been bad, reinforcing the feeling of overworking and a negative stigma around being wrong rather than learning. Their stance on AI seemed negative, and the interviewers' judgmental attitude wasn't appealing. I've had many interviews recently, and none were this bad. I'm not interested anymore and would withdraw if I passed this round. I don't want to spend 2+ more hours with the company or its people.

First, a senior engineer asked a basic OOP question. Then, there were two more rounds with multiple engineers where I had to solve several LeetCode problems. The LeetCodes were mostly easy/medium, with possibly one hard one at the end of the third round. The final round was with a senior engineer for a wrap-up behavioral interview.

The interview process was pretty standard. First, there was a recruiter call to discuss salary range and your background. Then, a 30-minute chat with the hiring manager. If that went well, they set up a 3-hour interview with potential coworkers. They also sometimes have a take-home project, which took me about 2-3 hours to complete, but mine wasn't really looked at. The culture seemed very homogenous, and they seemed to hire based on that rather than qualifications, despite claiming to focus on DEI. The offered salary was low for a VP role at $140k. Overall, it's a typical agency process, and the company seems decent, but the salary is not competitive.

Had an initial phone call with the recruiter to go over my background and the role. Then, I had a video interview with the hiring manager, followed by a video interview with four team members. They asked basic questions about my background and my experience with the software. The whole process was quite long. I didn't get an offer and asked for feedback but haven't received any yet. The HR coordinators were really helpful and the communication was great; I honestly thought I had the job and was pretty bummed by the generic rejection email.