Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Prelim as 18.2% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3.27 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Sales Analyst and Marketing Associate rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Product Designer and Implementation Architect roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Prelim takes an average of 25 days when considering 22 user submitted interviews across all job titles. To compare, the average duration of hiring at similar companies like BlackRock, Inc. is 14 days, Fabricated Software, Inc. is 2 days, and Apple Inc. is 21 days. Candidates applying for Marketing Associate had the quickest hiring process (on average 14 days), whereas Events & Community Marketing Associate roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 60 days).
- An initial call with HR (mostly behavioral and then logistics)
- 2 DSA & Algorithm interview (45 mins, Python, typical LeetCode)
- 1 Front-End focused interview (45 mins, React)
- 1 panel interview (1 hour of behavioral questions by 1 swe, 1 pm, another senior engineer to oversee)
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Behavioral/Panel: On your resume, be sure to know what you're talking about, asked questions that demonstrate about how well can you make an impact, collaboration within a team.
Technical: 1st technical was pretty easy, I was asked to write code that produce a specific design made of a bunch of (#). 2nd increased in difficulty, there was a follow-up question as well, it was on you design skill on how you would design and manage a database of customers. Last one was on front-end, only used React and a little bit of tailwin for styling. Asked to code some front-end behaviors as well.
The interview process was fairly organized and structured, with clear steps throughout. Communication around scheduling was smooth.
However, some of the conversations felt a bit impersonal and more transactional than expected.
TLDR; internal misalignment and impersonal candidate experience
I went through 3 rounds of interviews, one of which was to learn their platform and fix a misconfigured, and another with a CSM role play. I got a generic rejection email on a Saturday morning. I would expect after 3 rounds of interviewing and taking hours to learn their platform that they would've at least sent a personal email. Recruiter also ghosted me after I sent a follow-up...
Internally, I think they are having misalignment on this role. The role has been up since September and still hasn't been filled. Midway through the process, they told me they were going to swap around the interview rounds as well. Also saw them repost the same roles, and changing the title of this role to 'Customer Experience Associate'.
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Why Prelim?
How would you handle a frustrated customer?