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      Senior Full-Stack Engineer Interview

      Jun 10, 2021
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at SetSail in Jun 2021

      Interview

      1. Phone Screen 2. REALISTIC take-home assessment 3. 4-interview panel consisting of a discussion with a senior engineer, coding interview with engineering manager, system design, then chat with CTO The phone screen on Zoom was an excellent intro to the company. From there, a very realistic take-home assessment where the subject matter is given to you ahead of time so you won't be surprised by the need for a standard library and can brush up. I greatly appreciated and enjoyed doing it. A very nice break from leetcode and an opportunity to shine. The final panel had a nice discussion about motivations and engineering style and life at SetSail. The coding interview that followed was reasonably realistic though it did involve DS&A. System design was typical. The chat with the CTO was a great insight into how the organization is led. Thoroughly enjoyed everyone I interacted with and thought the interview process was more than fair. It's not too easy, and really stresses communication and collaboration skills which keeps a strong culture. The coding problems are realistic or close to it while still requiring some smarts. Overall, I thought the interview process was very fair, yet stringent enough to maintain what they've got going on. I enjoyed it and even received feedback throughout stages which was very atypical and welcome. The feedback was exactly what I expected so no surprises. Ultimately I missed the mark a little on the second coding round, which I also thought was fair. I fully intend to interview again in the future.

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      Question 1

      Very realistic back-end architecture debugging (~30 minutes). Real-world code problem (~45 minutes) with problem domain known ahead of time. Then a typical tech interview followed with a realistic problem that applied graph structures. Standard "what motivates you" and behavioral and cultural questions.
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      SetSail interviews FAQs

      • Senior Full-Stack Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at SetSail with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 87.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
      • Candidates applying for Senior Full-Stack Engineer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at SetSail overall takes an average of 20 days.
      • Common stages of the interview process at SetSail as a Senior Full-Stack Engineer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:

        Phone interview:  25%

        Group panel interview:  25%

        Presentation:  25%

        One on one interview:  25%

      • Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -

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        4. Customer Success(2) ;
        5. Software Developer(2) .


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