Underdog Interview Questions
& Process

The interview process seemed standard initially, but two parts gave me pause. One involved looking at actual production code from their data ingestion pipeline, which felt less like an interview exercise and more like real work. The other round required designing a whole system based on a lengthy set of requirements that closely mirrored the company's existing roadmap. The interviewer even noted that my proposed solution was unique, making me suspect they might be using interviews to get free technical advice instead of just evaluating candidates. It felt more like unpaid consulting than a fair skills assessment. I'd suggest future candidates ask about the purpose of any take-home or design tasks to ensure they're reasonable and in line with typical industry interviews.

I applied and they put me through the interview process really fast. All 4 interviews were scheduled in about 2 weeks. It became pretty clear during the interviews that they were unsure about what they were actually hiring for, or maybe they wanted to combine it with a security role when it shouldn't be. I got a bunch of questions about automations and incident response, which wasn't even in the job description. I even asked them during the interview why I was being asked these things, and they couldn't give me a straight answer. If they were considering me for another role, they should have just said so. The part about privacy engineering felt really disorganized, and the way the panel communicated during that section was kind of off-putting.

Really great interview experience. They had this awesome take-home test that really checked my ruby and class knowledge. It was pretty easy to medium difficulty and took about 2.5 hours. They even sent a gift card for doing it! The final part was a panel interview, broken into three parts: a technical challenge, a question about databases, and then some behavioral questions.

I had a really bad experience with this company. They made me wait a whole month for an update. The interviewers themselves were nice, but the way they kept me in the dark and never gave updates was frustrating. Then they sent a generic rejection email, saying they can't provide feedback due to internal policies. It felt unprofessional, especially since they told me in the interview that I was a great candidate and exactly what they were looking for. The email even said to keep in touch because they were impressed by my background. Honestly, it left a really bad impression, so I don't think we should keep in touch.