I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Redfin (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2022
Interview
I applied for an Engineering Manager Position on Redfin's website. Recruiter got back to me via email, gave some info about the interview process and scheduled first round of interview with the VP of engineering.
VP of engineering had a wrong resume and I had to send mine during the interview process. She said she was not prepared for my resume. Interview process was a generic behvaioral/team fit questions. We had a good chat for about an hour.
Recruiter comes back with a generic rejection email in next few days and then ghosted me when asked for a feedback.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Generic Behavioral/team fit questions that's available on Glassdoor
I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Redfin (Fremont, CA)
Interview
Initial phone call with recruiter- discussed current position, and several behavioral questions . Specially around team, DEI etc.
1st virtual on-site with a Sr.Eng Manager. He started the interview asking me to ask him questions. We spent 35 mins out of an hour talking about the questions that I had.
Last 25 mins were spent on behavioral questions he asked me around team,resolving conflict ,DEI etc
I felt I did good, but got a rejection after couple of days. When requested feedback on areas of improvement, the recruiter got back saying, they won’t be able to give any feedback.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
All behavioral questions around team /people/conflict management
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 6 days. I interviewed at Redfin (San Francisco, CA) in Feb 2017
Interview
Contacted by 3rd party recruiter, followed by a 90 minutes phone screen by hiring manager, followed by another 30 minutes phone screen by the same hiring manager. The interview was not technical but around how you operate as a software manager. My perception was that even though RedFin has an interesting business model, it is overstaffed for what it needs to build.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
All behavioral. Type of questions: What are your strengths? What are your weakness? How do you motivate high performer? Give me an example where you disagreed with someone in product? Tell me about a project where you made a significant change to an existing process? etc.
They never bothered to give me any feedback.
Candidates applying for Engineering Manager roles take an average of 10 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Redfin overall takes an average of 21 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Redfin as a Engineering Manager according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 43%
One on one interview: 29%
Personality test: 14%
Skills test: 14%
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