First there was an introduction phone call that was just a get to know you. Nothing out of the ordinary on this stage. Next there was a code-share phone call with a dev who had some code challenges. You had to solve them within 30 minutes or you failed. Lastly they flew me out for an in person interview with 3 developers. Each interview was 1-on-1 in a small room and lasted around 45 minutes. The first developer asked me to go over one of my projects and explain how it worked while she asked general probing questions to make sure I wasn't just BSing. Then she presented an idea for an app and had me explain how I might structure the components and why. The second developer presented a fairly convoluted database modeling exercise that he himself had a hard time explaining. This explaining ate up a lot of the allotted time. I get what he was trying to do here, but he just wasn't very good explaining what the app was supposed to do. The last developer had me whiteboard a couple coding challenges that weren't all that difficult. They are outlined in the questions section of this review. Overall it was kind of a negative experience as they told me the next week that I was perfect on every aspect except database modeling so they were going to pass for now, but that maybe I could come back for the next round. You would think perfection in 9/10 aspects would be good enough for an apprenticeship. Modeling advanced databases with a lot of connections isn't something one often does until they are working in the field, so of course I didn't have experience with this. It also didn't help the developer himself could hardly explain what the app was supposed to do for the user. They appear to be looking for developers that are above a Jr. Developer experience level already that they can pay around ~$17 an hour for 3 months to help work on their production projects. That's how it came off to me anyway. On a positive note they paid for the flight, hotel stay, ubers and meals for the last stage which was appreciated. In the end I felt like 4 weeks of my life had been wasted after the whole process. For whatever reason 1-2 weeks are seemingly required between each phase. I was able to land a Jr. Developer position at a different company no problem after my experience here, so in my opinion they are expecting too much for an apprentice position with 3 months of low pay and no guarantee of employment after the apprenticeship.

An initial phone screening, followed by a technical screening, followed by flying me to their Boston Headquarters for a three-hour interview. There were whiteboarding challenges, questions about my general development experience, and questions about Entity Relationships.