Intellistack Software Engineer Interview Questions
& Process

Process was divided into 4 meetings: 1. Screening 30 min 2. Engineering manager 30min 3. Offline coding task 105min 4. Final team interview 60 min. It's been over 2 weeks since final interview without any feedback. I've sent followup email which has been ignored. I've invested over 3.5h into your process, I've waisted a lot of time on your side and you couldn't send an automated email with decline? Im not mad that they hired other candidate, im mad that they could not send short decline email and ghosted my followup after final call. This is totally disrespectful, shame of you.

The interview process took over a month and had a few steps. First, there was a phone screen, then a technical take-home assignment where I had to build an app. After that, I had a group interview with some non-technical folks to see if I was a culture fit. Finally, I had an interview with the manager. It felt pretty easy, but it definitely took a while. They liked my app submission and said I was a good cultural fit. They told me it was a hard decision but they went with someone else who had a bit more experience with their specific tech stack. They even offered me a Support Engineer role. Looking back, it's probably a good thing I didn't get the job because they seemed to value specific tech stack experience over problem-solving skills and willingness to learn. I'm now a senior software engineer elsewhere and they saw my potential. It makes me wonder if they truly encourage engineers to innovate or grow.

About a week after applying they do a basic phone screen with the office manager, followed up with an "on-the-job project" email. They give you a week to complete a project using the Formstack API. You have to come up with the idea as well as implement it. At the end of the week there's a one-on-one interview with the dev team lead. We didn't hardly discuss the project at all as he was pretty positive about it. After about a week and a half they let me know they wanted to do a final interview. This interview was a group interview in three parts: met with 4 developers for a more technical part, met with three office people for the "culture" interview and finally met with the team lead and a VP. The culture portion was mostly random personality questions. I believe their interview process evaluates real-world skills better than the fact questions that other companies use.