Wellframe Interview Questions
& Process

So first there was like a quick 15-minute phone screen, you know, the usual. Then I had this Coderpad interview where I was on Google Hangout with an engineer. The last part was the onsite, which was like three interviews back-to-back for about two and a half hours. The first one was more about like, my personality and work style with the person who would be my manager, and then the other two were straight up technical.

I had a phone screening with two women. They seemed uninterested from the start and only asked me three questions. The first was how I heard of Wellframe, which was pointless since I explained that when I applied online. They only asked about one of my previous jobs. The third question was for an example of how I solved a customer/client problem in a past role. If I hadn't asked them questions, the call would've been about 10 minutes. My questions extended it to nearly 20 minutes. I got a generic rejection email a little over two weeks later on a Saturday. When I asked them to clarify and reconsider because I was qualified, I got an out-of-office reply less than an hour later.

I went through two phone calls, then had back-to-back in-person interviews with four team members. Two weeks later, I had another in-person interview with the CEO. This role was a consideration after a previous opportunity didn't work out. The team was friendly and seemed smart. However, even though it looked positive, the company decided at the last minute to change the job requirements to need a clinical degree, which I don't have. I saw an old review on Glassdoor with a similar situation where they interviewed people, then changed the job description. I get it to some extent, but it's not really considerate of serious candidates who apply carefully.

My interview process started with a good initial chat with the hiring manager. After that, I went through what was supposed to be the final round: six 45-minute interviews back-to-back, totaling 5 hours. It was a long day, but I was up for it because of the clear mutual interest. I felt those 6 interviews went well too. Then, a new exec joined and decided to step in. In a quick 25-minute chat, he thought he knew me better than the 7 people I'd already spoken with and insisted on ANOTHER round of technical interviews. The first of these was kind of weird; it was supposed to be an open-ended architecture discussion, but the interviewer kept saying there was a 'right' answer that wasn't always my own. Plus, they seemed to misunderstand some technical details, like saying the Kafka Streams API was a core part of Apache Kafka. Ultimately, this new exec used his 'findings' to overrule the hiring manager's positive recommendation, and I didn't get the offer.