I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Human Interest
Interview
This is the only time I've had someone tell me I'm over engineering a solution while simultaneously telling me I'm not considering scaling into the future.
Another startup with seemingly ok pay that thinks they are the next unicorn with 5+ separate interviews and interviewers with convoluted interview questions. I would have preferred leet code to actually demonstrate my coding skills or infrastructure challenge instead of arbitrary coding gotchas.
Wouldn't recommend anyone go through this slow process although I appreciate the recruiter giving feedback after the process.
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Was given an incredible convoluted financial application example and told to build the architecture behind it.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Human Interest in Dec 2023
Interview
Very disappointing. Talking with the recruiter was a very friendly and positive experience. The technical interviewer however, was incredibly rude. Never had I experienced such an attitude in my 10 years in the IT field. She asked me many questions that were all over the place. Inconsistent and not related to what I had explained about my projects. I tried to answer them as best as I could, And she even cut me off half way through explaining to jump to another question! And even made remarks "I know that already, tell me about...", I understand these tech recruiters ask many different questions, I have been doing this for a long time. But she was just PLAIN RUDE. I hope the HR see's all these negative reviews about their employees and does something about this!
The recruiter reached out to me a week after I put in the application to schedule a 15 minute screening call. I put in a time that was supposed to be treated as a confirmed interview, but the recruiter never called. I reached out again to see if they had accidentally missed the meeting, but I was ghosted. Very unprofessional.
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Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Human Interest with 3.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 33% positive. To compare, the company-average is 37.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 22 days to get hired, when considering 6 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Human Interest overall takes an average of 21 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Human Interest as a Software Engineer according to 6 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 29%
One on one interview: 29%
Skills test: 21%
Background check: 7%
Group panel interview: 7%
Personality test: 7%
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