Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Planet with 2.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 19% positive. To compare, the company-average is 41.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 31 days to get hired, when considering 16 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Planet overall takes an average of 32 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Planet as a Software Engineer according to 16 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 55%
Presentation: 27%
Group panel interview: 9%
One on one interview: 9%
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Lightweights and timewasters. They're using the hiring process like a PR stunt. I've looked up the actual developers and they're mediocre quality. Don't be surprised if you get denied and linked to their blog/twitter without a real explanation. They're not out to find top tier talent or skill, just trying to hang on to the B and C players to entrench their current paychecks. Move on.
I applied online. I interviewed at Planet (San Francisco, CA)
Interview
Technical Phone Screen followed by a take home challenge.
Then a 4 round onsite interview.
Finally rejected saying I lacked qualifications mentioned in the job posting. The "required" qualification was nowhere in the job description and they knew I did not have that as they had my resume but still wasted a lot of my time and effort in a false process consisting of 6+ rounds spread over several weeks.
Overall a very frustrating, time consuming and negative experience.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Planet (San Francisco, CA)
Interview
Had brief chat with multiple recruiters since I applied to a few roles. They made me talk to each team individually with separate coding chats.
The big issue was, I passed the first interview. So they gave me a lengthy take home project to work on. WITH NO CONTEXT OR WARNING, they sent me a generic rejection email 3 days into the project. No one followed up. No one told me why. No one ever saw my code! Really unprofessional.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is MVC and how is it represented on the front-end?