I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Gemini (New York, NY) in Jul 2019
Interview
The interview process started off well. I applied online and was contacted by one of their recruiters in the NY office. She quickly lined up a phone interview for me that week and it all went smoothly.
The next step was a "take-home" assignment which was fairly straightforward. They created a fictitious "Jobcoin" API which simulates transactions between wallets. The assignment was to make a simple dashboard for tracking the wallet balances over time. This included making a standard login view, followed by routes for each wallet/account for viewing dashboards. This part of the interview process went well, I was able to complete everything in a couple hours and show off the work on GitHub.
After promptly submitting the assignment, I did not hear anything back for over three weeks. Finally, when I received an email from the recruiter, she explained the next steps in the process and asked if I wanted to proceed with a four hour long video interview (with a manager, additional engineers and design).
At this point in the process, things were a little scattered and the interview was relatively unprofessional. They did not seem to ask thoughtful questions and I ended up having to carry some of the conversations. I do not think they were competent enough to evaluate a given candidate's technical skills. Ultimately I ended up declining and taking another job. I suppose I had higher expectations given that they are a highly regulated exchange.
Interviewer completely flaked on the scheduled phone interview.
I tried contacting them to see what happened but I had no way of doing so. The only email they provide is an email where they state they don’t read the responses to.
Overall completely unprofessional.
Candidates applying for Senior Front End Engineer roles take an average of 35 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Gemini overall takes an average of 24 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Gemini as a Senior Front End Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
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