I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at CloudKitchens (Los Angeles, CA) in Jun 2020
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter via email and set up an intro call. They spent around an hour telling me about the company and positions. I wish the conversation would have been condensed into 15 minutes as most of the content was not descriptive enough to enable me to understand what they were looking for. They offered to let me do an at-home coding challenge due to Covid restrictions. It sounded like a good experience for brushing up on some interview skills.
At this point, I checked Glassdoor to see how the process went for other people. It seems like it's been a negative experience for the devs that have been contacted.
Next came the coding challenge prompt via email as an at-home test. It reminded me of some final project for a university class on server applications.
- Some of the requirements seemed vague and likely to result in highly subjective feedback.
- The scope was really a full application, which could take weeks or months to build out at scale, rather than an interview oriented test of skills.
The application took me around 14 hours over a couple of days to build and test, though I wasn't sure of what they were looking for exactly. If you have time to burn, this is a great opportunity.
After a week, I got feedback that the solution wasn't what they were lookinging. This is what I was expecting, but it was still a good challenge to build.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Build a server application the company can deploy to accomplish it's primary business objectives (just read their website).
First interaction is an HR Call talking about compensation which is not liquid. Then comes a take home assignment to create a multi-threaded kitchen delivery system. They say not to use AI yet even after spending hours on it there is no feedback given. Not worth interviewing, your time is better spent elsewhere
Had an initial call with HR. Mostly just going over my experience and housekeeping questions. Next round was technical coding round over zoom. I wasn't able to clear this round.
Quite intense to finish within an hour with explanation of the thought process + design decision
Line 0: The ID of the item
Line 1: The item type, either CATEGORY, DISH or OPTION
Line 2: The name of the item
Line 3: The price of the item for DISH and OPTION. Not present for CATEGORY items.
api interface function: menu parser, OOD.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You are tasked with parsing menus from a large restaurant group.
Software Developer applicants have rated the interview process at CloudKitchens with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 23% positive. To compare, the company-average is 32.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Developer roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 22 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at CloudKitchens overall takes an average of 22 days.
Common stages of the interview process at CloudKitchens as a Software Developer according to 22 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
Skills test: 18%
One on one interview: 13%
Presentation: 11%
Background check: 11%
Group panel interview: 9%
Other: 4%
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