Tyvak Interview Questions
& Process

Extremely long hiring process with 4 interviews and a take-home technical exercise. This exercise takes several hours and seems to be used just to filter the high volume of applications.

I had a phone screening where they asked some technical questions, then a take-home coding test, followed by a longer virtual interview. I got an offer and had 5 days to accept. I was about to accept, but then I read the bad reviews and decided not to. I told them it was because of the reviews. About a month later, 10 new 5-star reviews appeared, which seemed suspicious. I reported them, and Glassdoor took down 11 reviews, including the new ones. So, take the good reviews with a grain of salt.

I sent in my application online in early February 2020. A recruiter from HR reached out to me on LinkedIn to schedule an initial phone screen. When the scheduled time arrived, the recruiter didn't call. After waiting 20 minutes with no call, I decided to call him. He eventually picked up, and we conducted the phone screen as planned, where he asked about my resume and previous engineering work. The phone screen went well, so he gave me a take-home programming assignment due by the end of that week. Since I was still working full-time, I requested an extension to complete it over the weekend, which he granted. The task involved writing a program to shuffle and sort a deck of cards. I managed to get the required functionality working, although some sorting algorithms weren't perfect because I only had the weekend for it. I submitted my code the following Monday. I didn't hear back, so I emailed the HR rep two weeks later to inquire about my status, but still no reply. Another two weeks passed, and I emailed again. This time, he responded, stating that my assignment results were 'not on par with moving to the next round.' I replied asking for feedback on what I did wrong. He then said, 'Sorry, I got your feedback confused with another candidate; let me get back to you with your feedback tomorrow.' It turns out he had mixed up my feedback with someone else's. The fact that he easily confused my application details was a major red flag. Regardless, he never sent my actual feedback. He completely ghosted me after that last email. I sent about 3-4 more emails over the next month requesting a follow-up, but received no response. This was by far the most unprofessional experience I've had with a company recruiter. It's frustrating to have spent about 5 hours over a weekend coding the assignment, only for them to mix up feedback and then ghost me.

I had a phone call with a recruiter, followed by interviews with HR recruiters. I wasn't contacted for further steps. The position was for immediate hiring for a mechanical engineer at the company's office for on-site work.