EasyPost Interview Questions
& Process

So I interviewed at Easy Post and it was really bad. The recruiter and hiring manager were cool at first, but the onsite interviews over two days were a mess. Day one, a senior engineer asked super basic questions you can find anywhere online, which was a bummer and didn't really test my skills. Then, a call with a product manager lead focused way too much on swimlanes and making sure engineering didn't slow things down, which felt excessive. Day two, I talked to a peer manager who asked normal stuff. But the CTO interview was wild – he kept interrupting me, bragged about firing 40% of engineers, and wore a t-shirt with a super offensive word. Unprofessional. The head of engineering interview was more like a chat full of his opinions, not a real assessment. They didn't ask any system design questions or follow up on my past projects, but then rejected me for not showing I could break down systems and guide the team. Just a really disappointing experience overall. I think they need a better, more thorough interview process.

A recruiter contacted me and gave me a take-home assignment with a 3-4 day deadline. I didn't hear back after submitting, which felt weird, so I found the hiring manager's email and reached out. They then set up interviews, including presenting my assignment to the team and talking with other stakeholders. Even after these interviews, I didn't get any updates. I followed up twice with the hiring manager before the recruiter finally got back to me after 2.5 weeks, saying they'd left voicemails that I never got. An email would have been fine. The recruiter clearly chose the easiest communication method for themselves and didn't bother to make sure I got the update. This whole thing was frustrating because I spent time on a detailed assignment just to be ignored, and not getting official updates was disheartening.

The whole process took three months from submitting the application, going through all five interviews, then getting a rejection. The five interviews were HR, engineering manager, then three engineering team interviews. After the HR interview, I was not too thrilled about this company, since the HR rep was stiff, robotic, and stereotypical company-first HR rep. The engineers I met with were smart and interesting. This company has the worst interview process of any company I have interviewed at. It also has the worst HR team of any company I have interviewed at. Communication was never prompt. Instead the HR drones at this company prefer to wait 2 weeks to a month to move you to the next stage. After completing all interviews and while I waited for a final decision, the HR drones made a decision a week later, then sat on the final rejection decision for a over a week before letting me know.

It was a great experience overall, and EasyPost moves super fast! Everyone was super pleasant to talk to and super accomodating. The engineers who interviewed me (all from the team I was interviewing for) were really pleasant, nice, smart, and even funny. It was cool how they put 2 engineers in each interview so I could see how they related to and synergized with each other, and also hear more perspectives about the engineers on the team I was interviewing for. The hiring manager was very down-to-earth and well-liked by the engineers. Everything had essentially a less than 1 day turnaround. I interviewed for a level 2 software engineer (I had 1.5 years of full-time experience), so I only had 2 hours of onsite interviews.