Girls Who Code Interview Questions
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The HR Manager was super nice and always kept me in the loop. The Hiring Manager threw some technical and non-technical questions my way. Even though I didn't get an offer in the end, the whole interview experience was great and I felt informed the whole time.

Got an email to set up an interview and then had a 30-40 minute Zoom chat. It felt pretty standard for the job, with questions all tied to the job requirements (like experience, what I learned, hows and whys). The reason I felt it was a bad experience is that I pretty much knew I wouldn't get an offer by the end. The interviewer seemed a bit cold and cut me off when they thought I was going off track. I was trying to give a full answer, but since it wasn't exactly what they wanted to hear, they thought interrupting was the way to go. I could tell they weren't really into it and just wanted to finish. They didn't do much of the usual polite stuff or give any reassurance that they were listening or understood, which usually makes for a better interview. I felt I had to write this review because it seems that for this interviewer, just being aligned with the GWC mission and passionate about increasing diversity in tech, which really shows the company's values, isn't enough to get past their idea of who should be in the role.

there were three parts of the process within the one interview meeting itself. the first part was behavioral, the second part was a brief mini-lesson (where you treated the interviewer as a student and pretended to be a teacher reviewing a concept from programming), and the third part was a quick technical question about debugging a simple program.

So first there was a phone call, then I had to do this big work sample that I wasn't paid for, and then I went in person. The recruiters were super nice and always got back to me quickly. But they asked for a bunch of work samples that took over 5 hours to complete (a really detailed country research analysis that needed to be only one page, an email draft, and a sales pitch). This was all before the in-person meeting. When I finally met them in person, they told me they hadn't even reviewed the work sample. My advice to them is that asking for a work sample is easy for them but takes a ton of time for candidates. It would be better if they asked for a shorter work sample or paid us for it. Apparently, other people who interviewed there had the same issue. Maybe they should rethink their hiring process to be more considerate of people's time.