Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at SendGrid with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 20% positive. To compare, the company-average is 41.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 18 days to get hired, when considering 5 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at SendGrid overall takes an average of 22 days.
Common stages of the interview process at SendGrid as a Software Engineer according to 5 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
One on one interview: 20%
Skills test: 13%
Other: 7%
Personality test: 7%
Drug test: 7%
Group panel interview: 7%
Presentation: 7%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at SendGrid
Interview
Had two phone interviews, one with company recruiter and one with a developer. Both seemed to go okay. In the developer interview I had coded with collabedit. Then I was given a relatively complex coding assignment and was asked to return it in one or two days. I did that at a large amount of inconvenience. Didn't hear back for two weeks and then was given a generated email rejection.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Culture seems to be big here, so there's lots of unexpected questions around that.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at SendGrid (Denver, CO) in Feb 2019
Interview
Initial 30 minute phone screen consisting of behavioral questions, technical questions, and inquiries about previous projects.
I passed this phone screen and advanced to the next stage which was a take-home technical challenge. This challenge involved building a simple single page web app in HTML, CSS, and jQuery after fetching data and images from a provided API.
I spent about 8 hours on this technical challenge and showed it to some colleagues to look over before submitting. As far as we all could tell, it worked perfectly, satisfied all the requirements, and contained several features to make it look more like the provided comp (even though these features were not listed as requirements).
The SendGrid recruiter I was working with informed me about a week later that they would not be proceeding with my application, but was friendly and offered to answer any questions I might have. I wrote back asking for some feedback about my submitted tech challenge to learn if I had inadvertently made some mistakes. No response, as is unfortunately typical for many companies. Whether it was due to the companies lack or organization or consideration for candidates who invest time in these challenge, I don't know.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Phone Screen
-Describe a project you've been working on recently and a new technology you're interested in.
-Describe a project you're proud of.
Tech Challenge
See above
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at SendGrid (Orange, CA) in Aug 2016
Interview
Calls with a technical recruiter, call with a hiring manager, a technical screen on hacker range, an in-person technical interview where you do some live coding and some white board designing, and talk with a product manager.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Talking about distributed systems and some of the challenges therein.