J'ai postulé via un recruteur. J'ai passé un entretien chez Handshake en févr. 2021
Entretien
They contacted me after I signed up on the app to represent my current company at a virtual career fair. I thought it was odd they used my work email to contact me- the same email I used to sign up on handshake. After receiving multiple emails from the recruiter about my linked profile being great etc, I decided to interview. The first interview was with hiring manager. I thought it went well. There was nothing technical about it but the next day I got the generic rejection email saying my background was not a good match. I feel like after reviewing me LinkedIn profile and resume they should have know my background was not a good. It felt like a waste of my time.
Please stop sending generic rejection emails.
When someone interviews at your company, they're taking time they could be using to do something else.
The least employers can do is do their own research before contacting candidates and then offer actionable feedback after the interview.
The overall experience was rather weird.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Tell me about yourself and some other behavioral questions.
The process began with a standard recruiter screen followed by a four-level coding challenge. Unfortunately, the technical assessment was poorly structured. The requirements for each level were overly abstract, forcing candidates to make broad assumptions to pass the test cases rather than following clear documentation.
Furthermore, the coding environment lacked basic IDE features like IntelliSense. Requiring verbose code for complex, ambiguous problems without standard editor support felt unnecessarily tedious. I managed Level 1, but by Level 2, the lack of clarity made it difficult to stay engaged.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Something around timestamp based key value storage and retrieval. Then level 2 involved assigning priorities to each key and then retrieving the sorted list of keys and so on.
J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 2 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Handshake en nov. 2024
Entretien
Standard tech interview with a take-home assignment. Not a leetcode brain-teaser but more basic code design.
Phone Screen
Technical Phone Screen
Virtual On-site
- Take home assignment, basic CRUD app
- System Design
- Behavioral
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Technical Phone Screen - Create methods to mock a vending machine. Vending machine should calculate change. User needs to call 2 methods, one to input change, one to select item, and 2 actions should be idempotent done in any order prior to vending items.
Virtual On-site
- Take home assignment, basic CRUD app
- Design a job board
J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 2 jours. J'ai passé un entretien chez Handshake (San Francisco, CA) en sept. 2023
Entretien
I hesitate to call my experience an interview, because, laughingly, I didn't even get to speak to the internal recruiter who originally reached out to me via LinkedIn. We initially had a date & time set, and the recruiter switched the calendar invite to a different day & time 10minutes before we were due to meet, without even the courtesy of informing me. As it turns out, that day & time were not good for me, so I suggested a different day & time, and sent the recruiter a note. The recruiter had accepted the 2nd invite, and I thought we were all set to meet via Zoom. I joined the call, but the recruiter never showed - totally ghosted. I haven't heard from the recruiter since