I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at SessionM (Prague) in Dec 2021
Interview
The process was quick and smooth.
First round. Intro with talent acquisition specialist. Overview of the product, team, and company. General questions about your experience and expectations.
Second round. Technical interview with Lead Engineer.
Third round. Soft skills and Behavioral interview with VP of Engineering with time for your questions.
Fourth round. Job offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Different technical questions.
Behavioral and soft skills.
Past experience.
Over six weeks from initial resume submission response through phone screen to interview.
Communication between stages was slow and poor.
Classically poor whiteboard process.
Some of the content was not relevant to the work performed.
Claim to be utilizing Scrum but have skill and role silos, celebrate throughput over outcomes, quality is an afterthought handled externally, business desires are not properly managed, technologist burnout seems likely.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
SQL (novice level):
Primary versus Foreign keys.
Types of JOINs and differences.
What is Normalization?
Why would one de-normalize?
Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at SessionM with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 38.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at SessionM overall takes an average of 19 days.
Common stages of the interview process at SessionM as a Senior Software Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 33%
Phone interview: 33%
Drug test: 17%
Presentation: 17%
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