I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at HealthSherpa in May 2020
Interview
I completed a technical phone screen with HealthSherpa. The interviewer did not introduce themself, was completely silent throughout the call, then cut the interview off with no time for questions. It was pretty clear I had failed! I did my best to talk through my thought process and share my knowledge of React for a 45 minute coding question. At the end I asked the interviewer if they had any questions and they simply said "Well, does it work?". I was caught off guard by the binary pass fail of needing it to compile. I had a really negative experience due to that - I felt that I had three years experience working with professionally with React and I could have done a much better job showing my skills if I had known to really prioritize making sure everything compiled at every step, and if I had a bit better knowledge of how to render react components in coder pad. After the interview they let me know they were still working out some kinks in the process and offered me to do the exercise as a take home, which I declined.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Code a ToDo list application in React in coder pad
First round phone screen then went to an on-site interview. Mostly architecture questions. Thought the interview was relatively easy. I liked talking to the interviewer and asked him a lot of questions as well.
Thank you for sharing your feedback. This may be a case of our company being confused with another, as the description does not match our actual interview process. HealthSherpa does not allow the use of AI in our software engineering interview process, and we do not include any interview questions related to AI usage.
Typical resume review. Asked questions about experience and one DEI at the end. The interviewer was very nice and the questions were all expected and fair. Not much to say beyond that.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell a story about a time you stood up for someone with less privilege.
I applied online. I interviewed at HealthSherpa in Aug 2020
Interview
Applied and was contacted by the recruiter for a phone screening. He asked the standard questions about my work experience and background, then told me he'd send me a technical take home challenge. It was all SQL since the company uses Rails without ActiveRecord.
I submitted it and heard back a week later that they were not moving forward. I was pretty confident in my answers so I asked if it was because of my answers or if it was due to culture fit. Never got an answer back but I saw on my email tracker it was read. Even if they couldn't say why, at least respond with that, especially during this tough job market and pandemic we're in.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Write a method that flattens an array that can be nested multiple levels
