I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Compass (New York, NY) in Feb 2018
Interview
The recruiter reached out to me about a role at Compass. The first step was your typical 20~30min HR screen where they ask you about your resume and they tell you about the company and teams.
Next step was the typical technical phone screen where an engineer would ask you a technical coding question and do it on the screen. The recruiter had told me that I could use any language of my choice. Turns out, they only have a limited number of languages (less than 5?) and I had to use a language I haven't used in years. I was very surprised by this miscommunication and struggled to remember some basic syntax (because I haven't used it in years!) and didn't get much through (it requires compilation to work so I had to be exact on my syntax; not one of those "i don't care if syntax is wrong").
I wish the recruiting process was more straightforward so I could have brushed up on the basic syntax.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
It was a fairly straightforward hashmap/dict question.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Compass (Bellevue, WA)
Interview
Pretty chill. Three rounds of debugging, technical (leetcode), and behavioral, which was more like high-level with AI assistance. The values did not come up very much while going through the interview process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Had us do an AI round about forms and matching things.
Debugging, technical, then behavioral. I had been given two language options for the debugging portion (Java or Python) during the phone interview then when I went to the onsite there seemed to be a miscommunication because the interview said I could use JS since I was applying as a frontend engineer. The debugging was pretty doable, the behavioral was odd but fine.
The interview process felt chaotic and poorly organized. What I was asked in the interview didn’t align with what HR told me to expect, and the interview started late. The lack of alignment between HR and the interviewer made it feel like the company overall may be chaotic. Afterward, HR’s follow-ups were generic and robotic, and the employer also mentioned layoffs, which added to the uncertainty. Overall, it didn’t feel worth the effort.