J'ai postulé via une agence de recrutement. J'ai passé un entretien chez Stepful
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J'ai passé un entretien chez Stepful
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Call with a recruiter covering past projects, product thinking, and expectations, followed by a technical screen to debug and add features to your preferred tech stack. Overall, it felt like a standard straightforward interview process.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Assessment that involves working through a browser based IDE and fixing and updating the post /api/documents endpoint so documents could be created successfully using json input and returned a proper response. This required debugging and fixing controller strong params handling. Also on editing and persistence, making sure update parameter keys were formatted correctly and that changes made via PUT /api/documents/:id were saved to the database and reflected after page reloads. Also to Implement document sharing via email, which involved a post /api/documents/:id/share endpoint and verifying that shared users had appropriate view or edit access through get /api/documents/:id/view.
They have a take home assignment which they warn to do quality over quantity. They list a ton of requirements in which I only did half, and even that was too much. They want it to be production ready, so really only a few endpoints is necessary. Huge waste of time interviewing here.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Take home exam, asking about design and production readiness
J'ai postulé via une autre source. J'ai passé un entretien chez Stepful
Entretien
Intro call with recruiter, create crud app from scratch. I pushed back on the crud app because ALL of the other companies im interviewing with don't require me to create a full app. I'm not sure if they just wanted to see candidates use cursor or AI tools unspokenly or what. But, still unreasonable.
I've heard companies that ask this of candidates steal UI/UX design ideas and then just reject them. Don't interview with this company. Preys on desperate candidates to steal ideas and/or waste their time.