Coding Dojo Interview Questions
& Process

It was a pretty bad experience. They rescheduled the interview three times. The interview itself wasn't very long, but the questions were all over the place, touching on too many unrelated topics.

The interview process was really drawn out. I think I went through about five or six video interviews with various staff and managers before finally getting to the in-person interview. The video interviews were fine, and I actually enjoyed talking to those employees who would have been my remote teammates. However, one person kept rescheduling, so a different staff member would step in last minute each time. It felt like I wasn't a priority – this person was apparently so important that he couldn't spare 30 minutes for a video call. Then, when I got to the final in-person interview, I was supposed to meet with three people I'd be working with most closely. When I got there, it was actually the entire staff! It felt like I was being lined up for a firing squad, and it was pretty obvious a couple of people didn't like me from the start. They asked me questions that had nothing to do with the job, and it seemed like the staff either deliberately tried to trick me or they had zero interviewing experience and just Googled questions last minute. It definitely didn't feel like they were genuinely trying to get to know me. Also, having that many people in an interview is super inefficient. Everyone wanted to ask their questions, and I had very little time to ask my own. When I did get to ask, one employee cut me off, saying something dismissive like, 'we don't have time for everyone to respond to your questions.' That wasn't my intention; I'd just ask a question and then every single staff member wanted to chime in. One employee, in particular, vocally disagreed with everything I said and more or less glared at me the whole time. He kept calling himself a software engineer and acting like he was basically Steve Jobs, but I later found out he had a social science degree like mine and had just recently completed this program. Anyway, he made sure to let me know he was superior at every opportunity. These people strung me along for weeks with challenge after challenge, even going as far as to check my references, and then they told me I wasn't a good fit. It's really stuck with me, and I think people should know what to expect. They completely ignored that an interview is supposed to be a two-way street; they aren't just interviewing me - I'm also interviewing them to see if it's a good environment. All in all, I'm glad it happened because I definitely wouldn't want to work with them. Terrible experience! Leave the interviewing to people who know how to do it, and stop treating potential candidates like adversaries. Ridiculous. Worst interview experience ever!

I applied online and then got a call about 2 months later to set up a phone interview with the Department Manager. It went really well, and they asked me to continue. The next interview was remote and with the whole team I'd be working with. I had to prepare a short workshop presentation on any topic and also be ready to talk about why I want to work there and introduce myself. I put a lot of work into my presentation and was excited for this type of interview. I felt it went well overall, with the team asking me questions and me getting to ask them questions too. My only worry was that the Manager seemed to push the team to ask questions, maybe because they had other things going on or just weren't that interested. It's important that interviewers make you feel like you're their priority. About a week later, I got an email saying I wasn't chosen, which was a bummer because I really liked the interview process and felt I could have been a good fit helping students find jobs.

It was a tough process, but I appreciate it now because the staff quality is top-notch. We had a group interview where we worked on some algorithms and a small assignment. After that, I had a one-on-one meeting with a senior staff member, which was mostly a conversation, followed by some algorithm questions.