Brightcove Software Engineer Interview Questions
& Process

The process was short, which was great. I usually hear about bait and switch tactics with pay ranges, but this was my first time experiencing it. After being reached out to and reviewing the job post, I scheduled a call. The recruiter was nice enough, but then they told me the budget for the role was almost 30K lower than the pay transparency range. They said that was the 'range' and it's separate from the budget. I didn't continue because it would have been a 25K pay cut for me. I'm still surprised how the 'range' and 'budget' can be different, especially since pay transparency laws are meant to tell you what a company would reasonably pay. I live in a high-cost area (California) and figured I'd qualify for at least the top third of the range, and I wasn't even asking for the top. Sounds like HR fed them some talking points. It's odd because when I asked my company (which hires remotely across the US) about this, they said our budget is our budget. So, something is off here, be careful.

So, the first thing was this take-home coding test where they give you a basic react app template and you gotta show data from a form (username, age, gender) after submitting it, with some sorting. Then, I had a call with the tech lead for the team. He talked about what they do and asked some easy technical stuff like how to center a div and about my accessibility experience. He was super nice, gave me a good feeling about the job. After that, it was three back-to-back half-hour interviews with different people from the team. The first one was with someone from testing, we talked about some behavioral questions and did some simple JavaScript trivia. The second round involved live coding with a couple of devs – they wanted me to get data from an API and show it, and also build a basic responsive website with divs and CSS. The last interview was with the team manager, who hit me with some harder JavaScript questions about closures and sync/async stuff. I kinda tanked that one but thought the questions were great. Overall, it was a solid interview process, felt relevant and the interviewers were all friendly and welcoming. The only bummer is that after it all, I got ghosted. No one followed up about the job status, even though they said they would.

The interview process was great, mainly featuring practical coding challenges and discussions about my past work. I had conversations with several future teammates who thoroughly explained the project I would be joining. Additionally, I had a more relaxed chat with senior company leaders, allowing me to ask broader strategic questions.