Tenfold Interview Questions
& Process

I can describe the interview process briefly, but I can't. There's so many rounds and steps that are, at least most of them, irrelevant to my professionalism and qualification. I'd hope to share it because my experience is a fair warning. If you're not highly decisive to this company, be prepared to get yourself dragged into very lengthy process. The first round is the online form which is four page long questionnaire. Some of the questions are pretty much like a essay question. And you only get 48 hours to finish it. Next round is a work sample test where you share your screen with a recruiter to perform some data analysis. It'll take about an hour, if you're not a number-crunching expert you'll feel tremendous pressure. If you pass, you'll have to fill out an IQ test and personality test with hundreds of questions. These steps will take weeks and until then, you don't get a chance to talk anyone on their team. Not even a greeting chat, not to mention to know more about the company, product, team, role expectation etc. The entire time I was taking orders to finish tasks and finally got an rejection email. It'll all worth it unless you are absolutely sure this is the company you wanted. But how can you know that without talking to anyone.

Applied online and heard back in about a week. Next, there was an online form to fill out, which was straightforward. After that, we set up a live work sample, which took about a week to schedule because the hiring manager was busy, which is understandable given how fast the company is growing. The live work sample involved answering questions based on an Excel sheet of monthly revenue. It was challenging, especially for me as a Product Manager with 5 years of experience, but I managed. I got feedback a few days later that they chose another candidate. The hiring manager was really positive, and I found the experience valuable. I'll keep an eye on Tenfold for future openings.

So the first interview was with the recruiter, then I got sent a test to implement an automation framework using JavaScript and Protractor. The next step was supposed to be a call with a developer for pair programming. After submitting the test, I had to wait about a week for the call with the developer. When I finally booked it, the developer didn't show up on the scheduled day. The next day, I was made to wait over 2 hours. When the interview finally happened, the conversation was good, but during the pair programming part, the other developer seemed a bit lost and uninterested. The interview ended after about 10 minutes. The feedback was that they decided to move forward with another candidate who performed better on the coding portion. I didn't get specific feedback, and honestly, if the other developer isn't engaged, the interview feels like a waste of time. I'm pretty disappointed because I spent a lot of time and energy trying to get the interview scheduled and for the developer to actually show up. The vague feedback wasn't helpful, and I'm not sure what went wrong. When I asked for more details, I was ignored. I really don't recommend this company and think it might be easier if you already know someone there.

The interview started with a general phone screen, followed by a coding interview conducted over screen share. For the coding part, I had to set up a new project environment to run their test suite, despite having all dependencies installed, and without much guidance. It was basically test-driven development, writing a recursive filter function. The interviewer was the same technical recruiter from the first round, who didn't seem engaged, mostly staying on mute and observing without interaction. It would be better if an engineer conducted the coding challenge and interacted with the candidate's thought process, or if they used a Hackerrank exercise to save time on setup. The problem itself was easy, but the setup issues and the interviewer's lack of engagement made it frustrating.