I applied online. I interviewed at Clipboard in Feb 2025
Interview
"Unreliable Coding Assessment and Zero Support – A Major Red Flag"
My experience with ClipboardHealth’s coding interview process was frustrating and unprofessional. Their online coding assessment simply didn’t work properly, and when I reached out for assistance, I received no meaningful support. The recruiter was completely unhelpful, offering no solutions or alternatives, and seemed uninterested in addressing the issue. Instead of troubleshooting the problem or providing any kind of guidance, I was left to deal with a broken system on my own.
For a company that the recruiter claims to be tech-driven, it’s concerning that they can’t even provide a functional and reliable coding assessment for potential hires. If they can’t get something this basic right, what does that say about their internal engineering practices? The lack of responsiveness from both their platform and their recruiter doesn’t inspire confidence in how they treat their employees or support their developers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked to pull a repo which contained simple api(s) and asked to write a function which leveraged responses from multiple api calls and normalize into a pre-determined model object.
The interview process starts with a 90 minute take-home assignment followed by an initial interview. After that, candidates complete a 3 day Technical Design Document (TDD) assignment and review interview, then finish with a final hiring manager interview.
Both take-home assignments were genuinely fun and interesting problems to work through. After each one, you meet with an engineer to discuss your approach, the decisions you made, and alternative solutions, which made the process feel collaborative rather than adversarial. It was also a great opportunity to talk with people you could potentially be working with.
The final stage focused more on past experience and technical discussions around previous projects and problems I’ve worked on.
Overall, the interview process was well organized, moved fairly quickly, and the team was very supportive throughout.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Can you tell me about a project you worked on that you’re proud of?
I applied online. I interviewed at Clipboard in Apr 2026
Interview
Initial screening is all automated. They give you access to a small repo and a simple JavaScript endpoint to complete. Based on those results you proceed to next steps. I was rejected by initial screening, which was odd considering my output was the same they had in acceptance criteria. They also say the output didn’t pass their scripts, but they can’t provide feedback? Why not send the script result output? Either I missed something simple, or there were gaps in their instructions. Either way, would be easy to automate the feedback too if it’s just script output
Simple it starts with an assessment and then if you pass the assessment you get an interview based on assessment and then there is a documentation based assessment and the follow-up interview and then the final round interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe your thought process going through the project