BitTorrent Interview Questions
& Process

The interview process started with a phone interview on Tuesday, followed by onsite interviews on Thursday. There were a total of five interviews, each lasting 45 minutes. I received a job offer on Monday. I had let them know from the start that I had another offer, and BitTorrent was amazing at scheduling everything quickly and getting the offer out. The whole process was really enjoyable and well done.

Round one was a phone screening with standard questions. Then I had a homework assignment to test my technical skills: I had to load feeds from Ted Talks, render them in the DOM, animate the results with a dropdown, and make them expandable with an accordion-style click event. The third round was an onsite interview with the marketing team that lasted 3.5 hours. I thought the process was frustrating because after putting in so much time on the tech exercise and the onsite, I just got a generic rejection email. Pretty tacky. I don't mind not getting the job, but a little personal touch like 'enjoyed meeting with you' would have been nice.

It started with a recruiter reaching out via email. I had a phone chat with the recruiter where I talked about my experience. Then, I was sent a code challenge to do at home. After I finished that, I got an invite for an onsite interview. The onsite went pretty well, I think. I met four people: a project/product manager (who asked about my experience/resume), the engineering lead (did some whiteboard coding), a UI/UX designer (asked for my input on some designs), and an operations manager (behavioral questions). I really liked everyone I met. The next day, they called me and said the interview went well and they wanted to know more details, like my start date and salary expectations. That's when things went south. I gave them the info, and they said they'd get back to me quickly, but... never did. It's been 3 months! I followed up a lot at first, but the recruiter kept making excuses like the PM was busy or things were crazy. At first, they said by the end of the week, then next week. Later, they stopped giving dates and just said 'soon' if I pushed. I found it really unprofessional. After about a month, I stopped following up to see if they'd ever reply. The last thing I heard was two months ago, saying I was still being considered, and since then, nothing. Not even a rejection email. I'm honestly appalled by how unprofessionally they handled this – I really hope they don't treat their employees the same way!

The interview process included two phone screens and an on-site presentation plus a challenge. Each phone screen and interview started at least 15 minutes past the scheduled time. During the on-site panel interview, most of the team didn't pay attention to my presentation. The in-person interview lacked structure and the questions weren't in-depth. The whiteboard challenge was unusual, not like typical design challenges, possibly because designers weren't involved. When asked how I'd work with the team, they didn't help with constraints but instead added more open-ended goals to the prompt.