RelayHealth Interview Questions
& Process

So, I got this cold outreach from a recruiter about a role. We chatted a bit, set up a screen, and then a first phone interview. That went well, the hiring manager seemed sharp and we clicked. He thought my background was a good fit and wanted to set up more phone screens with the team. Scheduling was a mess though, like multiple interviewers called me at the same time, had to reschedule one. Then the recruiter hit me up about another team's HM wanting to screen me the same day. I went for it, but that second HM seemed lost on his role. I bowed out of that loop, told the recruiter I'd stick with the first one. She got kinda mad, said I wasted her time and pushed for more HM time. I explained that 4.5 hours of calls was enough to know and I value decisiveness. She thought it made her look bad. Then, coordinating with McKesson for an onsite was last minute, like the day before. I saw on the schedule there was a panel with a presentation, which the recruiter hadn't mentioned at all. After emailing her, she confirmed a case needed to be prepared overnight. So, I prepped what I could. Onsite morning, I thought I was heading to my interview room, but ended up in some graduate panel. Finally got to the right room, HM asked if I was ready to present my PowerPoint. I was surprised, I only prepared a case walk-through, not a full presentation. Turns out a VP was on a call waiting for me, again, zero coordination. They finally told me the project details then, totally different from what I researched. The VP was sales-y and looking for non-digital background. I did my best, linked it to my marketing past. The panel presentation itself went okay, got some decent feedback but some questions were random. One PM said my presentation was too technical for him. Someone else asked about BI and insisted I contact them later. After the panel, I met the HM again, he basically said I got it. Then he introduced me to someone else who wasn't even in the loop. After two weeks of silence, found out they hired someone else who was a 'better fit'. Total time spent was like 10-11 hours, a total mess.

So the interview at RelayHealth for a software engineer role is definitely not a walk in the park, but with good prep, you might just nail it. First off, there's a 30-minute presentation from their VP of product development. After that, a 45-minute technical test with some pretty challenging questions, like writing C# code for number patterns and sums, SQL queries with joins, and object-oriented design for a deck of cards, plus a CSS question about 'cascading'. It's a tough test to finish in 45 minutes unless you're super quick. Then comes the behavioral part, which is like 3 separate rounds with different people: an architect, a team manager, and a project manager. Two of them were cool, but one guy was clearly rushed and just zipped through his questions, barely letting me respond. It felt like a rapid-fire session. Some of the behavioral questions were a bit out there, like asking about impacting team members, project failures, or client appreciation. Finally, a programmer meets up to go over your technical test, discussing what you did well and where you could improve. All in all, it was a pretty involved interview, but I reckon I could have aced it if I'd known the questions beforehand, just like you have now!

My first call got pushed back because the hiring manager had something come up. We ended up talking on a Saturday for about an hour and a half. Then, the next week, they set up a face-to-face interview from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. I met with 4 out of the 5 people I was supposed to – 2 engineers and 3 managers. The last person couldn't make it. The technical screen ran way over because one of the engineers went too long, and I didn't wrap up until 6 p.m. The recruiter who contacted me was super keen and we started talking about numbers right away as we were leaving.

I applied through the University Job Fair and got an email from HR about a week later. They did an initial screening where they asked about my interests and Visa status. After that, the first round happened at the Emeryville office. Two people interviewed me for this round: a Sr. Software Engineer who asked me basic Java questions and questions from my resume, and someone from the front-end team who asked me coding questions. I received a rejection the following Monday.