Taxbit Software Engineer Interview Questions
& Process

It began with a recruiter chat, followed by a non-technical phone screen with an engineer where they asked about my past work experience. The final round had three parts: a system design conversation, a coding challenge that was surprisingly easy, and a behavioral interview that felt a bit chaotic but was essentially more questions about past work experience, similar to the first phone screen.

After applying, I was contacted by a recruiter, who scheduled a phone interview. During this phone interview, we chatted lightly about what I was looking for and what TaxBit offers. It seemed like a good match, so we moved forward to the next step: an interview with a hiring manager. The interview with the hiring manager went smoothly and the manager who interviewed me seemed nice and highly competent - great start. After this interview, the next round got scheduled: 1h coding interview + 30min culture interview. The coding interview went well; the engineers were friendly, the questions were fair, and I felt like I did well on them. The culture interview also went well, and it was a great experience talking to the team member (I forget their position within the company) who ran it. Then, they ghosted me. It's been several weeks since the last time I heard a word from anyone at TaxBit, and I can only assume that this is how they reject people. The day after I posted the original review, the recruiter for this position reached back out. As it happened, they had approved the interviews and intended to start preparing an offer letter, but I had just fallen through the cracks in the process. They quickly double-checked with the team and scheduled a call with me the following Monday to discuss what I would be looking for in an offer. The next day, I had a similar call with the hiring manager. I did end up getting an offer from them, but I had to prompt them to actually send it a few days after the date they had told me to expect it by and decided to decline it due to receiving a better offer from another company. Overall, the experience was a mixed bag. As described in the original review, the interviews themselves went well, but the month without contact and the fact that I had to prompt them to send the offer multiple days after when I was told I would receive it left an impression of the company being disorganized. The competing offer that I ended up taking came a few days after I actually got the TaxBit offer, which means that if the TaxBit offer had come when it was originally intended, I would not have had any competing offer and would have taken it.

The interview process started with a HackerRank online assessment, followed by a recruiter screen and then a hiring manager screen. After that, I had an onsite interview in Seattle which consisted of one system design round and one coding round. Everyone I met was friendly. I kinda got the feeling after the system design round that I might not get an offer, but the office tour was still a nice experience.