CoreDial Interview Questions
& Process

I applied online back in January, but it seems the company's system didn't receive my resume. I reached out to a contact there who connected me with the HR rep. After sending my resume again, the HR person called for a phone screen. They then set up an in-person interview. I met with three people: a Scrum Master, a VP, and a Sr VP. The interviews with the Scrum Master and VP went well. The Sr VP interview was mostly a long demo of their applications, which was interesting for learning about their product. He didn't ask me any questions, but I asked him many. I suspect he was waiting for me to call time on the meeting, like a Scrum Master would, but I was just being polite. They never followed up with an email or feedback, even after my follow-up emails, so I'm assuming I didn't get the job. My feedback would be that if candidates invest time in an in-person interview, it's courteous to at least send a brief email regarding the outcome.

So there were two phone screens, the first one was the hardest. They told me about an in-person interview happening a month later, but then they canceled it the morning it was supposed to occur, which was really unsettling and I had to take a day off from my current job. The week after, I went for the rescheduled interview, and it lasted almost 6 hours. I met with 6 people for about an hour each, and most of them weren't the ones they said I would meet. At one point, they actually forgot about me and I was left in a meeting room while a meeting started. That was pretty embarrassing. It was an unbelievably long and tough interview process. My advice is to make sure you eat and use the bathroom beforehand.

So, I had this recruiter who was like the middleman, so some stuff might have gotten lost. First, I chatted with them to get the lowdown on the job, salary, and see if I was even interested. Then, I had a phone call with the Director of Software Development, who I think was the hiring manager. We talked more about the role and my background. After that, there was supposed to be a final onsite with the Director, the VP of Software Development, another Solutions Architect, and a Principal Software Engineer. Each person had me for about 30 minutes, and the chats were kinda technical but not super deep because of the time limit. They said it went well and I had no red flags, but they wanted to offer me the low end of the salary range. I wasn't into that, so they wanted a second onsite to really see if they could go higher, which I thought was weird since I was asking within their range. This second 'final' onsite involved repeating the same questions with the Director. The VP just asked me what the Director had already asked. The rest of that time was spent on my questions for him. Then, the current Solutions Architect had me whiteboard a system architecture, which took longer than 30 minutes because we got into the weeds. After that, they said I'd get an offer higher than before, but still less than the top of their initial range, which they called their 'max budget.' They also showed me their benefits, which weren't great (no equity, no bonus, expensive insurance, no 401k match, slow PTO accrual). The offer never actually came. I kept checking in, but there were always excuses about people being out of office. Eventually, I just figured they weren't organized or honest enough to just say no. Weeks later, I heard they passed, no reason given. Based on other Glassdoor posts and former colleagues' experiences, this seems to be a pattern for them – enticing candidates with big salary ranges via recruiters but budgeting way less, then stringing people along. So, if you're thinking about CoreDial, make sure you confirm the actual salary with the hiring manager early on.

The interview process was actually pretty cool. It was good for me to meet stakeholders in what my future job will be instead of the usual meet with HR, meet with my boss, etc. because I never heard the same thing twice, and everyone was able to share feedback regarding how they viewed the role and how they felt their roles aligned with it.