It was a lengthier interview process than I was used to but it felt right in the end, it touched upon all the right areas and domains to ensure alignment.
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Please give an example where you had to arbitrate and solve a conflict in the team.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Grubhub
Interview
There was 2 phone interviews and then a video interview. During the video interview it was incredibly clear that the interviewer did not enjoy his job and it sounds like the engineering org is bogged down with red tape. Additionally we had to reschedule twice because critical production issues came up.... concerning for culture. So I declined further interviews
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Question 1
I was asked to discuss the current projects I work on
Interviewed for an Front-End Engineering Manager role in April 2021. The on-site consisted of five hours of calls spread across two days. The technical recruiter indicated several times during preparation that no coding would be necessary, but instead there would be one round of high-level discussion around architecture / whiteboarding, or potentially, identifying a bug in existing code. As I'm not in the weeds in my current role in terms of React.js specific syntax, I felt comfortable with proceeding with the process as described. The first round was immediately a CodePen/code-sharing exercise in React.js, which was surprising given this was explicitly mentioned would not be the case. No verbal cues or hints were given from the interviewer(s), nor was the option, or expressed permission, to reference documentation. We ended up ceasing the coding portion early and just had a stilted discussion on CI/CD and automated testing for the remainder of that round. The following rounds were project/process-focused or behavioral assessment type conversations with an Engineering Manager, Product Director, VP of engineering, and the hiring manager, all of whom were extremely personable and informative. I was told a decision would be made after all of the panel’s feedback was submitted early the following week. Toward the end of the next week, I was informed via a phone call from the recruiter that I would not be getting an offer due to a “huge technical gap”, despite mentioning positive feedback from the other interviewers. It’s unfortunate there was no attempt to request a subsequent coding sample, or even a glance at my personal Github repo, to confirm technical prowess given there was only one outlier round. Misinforming candidates and being so reliant on unanimous consensus indicates a flaw in the hiring process itself and will likely result in overlooking quality candidates.
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Questions around project / people successes and failures.
Engineering Manager applicants have rated the interview process at Grubhub with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 25% positive. To compare, the company-average is 59.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Engineering Manager roles take an average of 28 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Grubhub overall takes an average of 18 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Grubhub as a Engineering Manager according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
One on one interview: 50%
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