Fieldwire Frontend Engineer Interview Questions
& Process

Beware. Like the other reviews stated, this company has been posting fake job postings with no intention to hire, including for this role. Don't waste your time interviewing with this company. Interview process: Phone screen with recruiter, then you will have 1 hour interview with an engineering manager. It's mainly a discussion about the role and company itself and any questions you might have. After that, you have the option to do the take-home challenge or not. You have a week to complete and submit the take-home challenge and on the virtual onsite, you will have a 1 hr interview for the extension of the take-home challenge. If you did not choose to do the take-home, you will have a different interview in place of this one: It will be a 1.5 hour session with a live coding challenge and pairing. Depending on whether you pass this round or not, you will move on to 2 x 1 hr interviews: One technical deep dive on a project and one on systems design.

Everything was done online. It started with a phone chat with HR, then a coding interview with the Engineering Director, and finally a take-home coding test.

So I had a phone screen with the recruiter first. Then, I chatted with an engineering leader to see if I was a good fit. After that, there was a take-home challenge where I had to build a photo gallery search using the Imgur API. Unfortunately, my submission got lost for like a month, so I didn't hear back for a while. Eventually, they got in touch and set up 3 more interviews: a live coding session that was like an extension of the take-home, a deep-dive into a recent project I worked on (no coding involved), and a systems design interview. You could only proceed to the deep-dive/systems design if you passed the coding extension. The coding extension was just about manipulating data from the Imgur API, not really related to the actual code I wrote for the take-home. Just make sure your fetch function is solid. I don't think they even looked at the take-home submission, it seems to be just a way to filter people out. My interviewer even mentioned he never saw my code, so I have no clue who did. For the live coding extension, they just wanted to see if I could manipulate data from the Imgur API. So, if you know all the built-in JavaScript methods for objects and arrays, you should be good. Honestly, I'm not sure the interview process really reflects what it's like to be a frontend developer day-to-day. ChatGPT could probably do the live extension tasks in 10 seconds, but if you don't know the built-in object/array methods by heart, you won't pass. Overall, the process felt a bit disconnected from the actual job.