Podium Software Engineer I interview questions

The process took forever. The recruiter that texted me was very unresponsive and didn't know who I was half the time I contacted him. It took quite a while to move through each step of the process. If that was indicative of how things are run here it makes me wonder if management is very organized.

I was initially referred by a friend to the recruiter. The CTO and recruiter both reached out to me excited about the opportunity to get to know me. The recruiter gave me a coding challenge and told me I would have a follow up interview in a couple of days to review my work from the coding challenge. The coding challenge consisted of multiple choice questions, and some coding questions to assess your knowledge over programming principles. Went through coding challenge, and then had my follow up phone call. In my follow up phone call I unfortunately caught off guard because, because the interviewer was 10 minutes late to the phone call, and we didn’t review my coding challenge as the recruiter communicated we would. The phone interview went over background and knowledge and dove into knowledge of some programming concepts. The phone interviewer also outlined what the next steps could look like, and how I could prepare. I then got a generic email back from the recruiter stating that “After reviewing your background and experience, we've decided to pursue other candidates”. There seemed to be some discrepancy between the process laid out by the interviewer and the recruiter so there appears to be some disconnect between people in the recruiting. Honestly I think Podium is an amazing company and I’d still love to work with them. I think there are some growing pains with the rapid growth they have been having, but I’m sure they’ll iron things out. I’d say I had positive interactions with everyone I spoke with, just the interview process seemed unorganized.