Envoy Software Engineer Interview Questions
& Process

The hiring process usually starts with a recruiter call, then a hiring manager call, followed by a technical screen, and finally an onsite loop. The final stage involves four to five rounds: a culture interview, two coding interviews, a meeting with the hiring manager, and a meeting with the CTO. Getting hired requires at least two "strong yes" recommendations, which seems demanding but understandable given the current job market. A positive aspect is that the hiring manager provides a 15-minute feedback session for unsuccessful candidates, though it took some nudging the recruiters for a few weeks to get this sorted.

It started with a 30-minute call with the hiring manager, followed by a 4-hour technical on-site. The process itself is pretty standard, but I'd advise against companies that don't follow up after you've spent time preparing. It's been months since my on-site and I still haven't heard back from Envoy about the results. It's unprofessional and shows a lack of respect for candidates' time. I'd steer clear of this place if their way of treating candidates after 4.5 hours of interviews is to ghost them with no feedback – it's a real slap in the face. Even a generic rejection would be better than nothing. Also, the questions they asked were really unique to them, some were specific to their team's work, but others felt completely unrelated. Heads up, you can't really prepare for these questions since they aren't like LeetCode or general programming questions; it's more like 'here's an obscure feature we're trying to implement that has no relation to what we do, can you solve it?'

This was hands down the worst interview experience I have ever had. The interviewer was 8 minutes late for the phone screen. Once they arrived, they immediately started bragging about their past experience at Facebook and Dropbox. Then, they asked a coding question. I solved it quickly, but they also threw in trivia questions like 'Why do financial applications not use floats?' and 'Why does Python not let you index dictionaries with lists?'. The worst one was 'When do ArrayLists allocate more space?'. I guessed 2/3, and they laughed and gave a really condescending example about apartments to explain it, saying it makes no sense to allocate new space before it's full. To top it off, they literally laughed when I asked if I had any questions, implying I did badly. It was a mean and belittling experience. I feel like I dodged a bullet given how rude they were during a phone screen.