I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Solace in Jan 2026
Interview
I found the process disrespectful of my time and energy.
I did not apply but was contacted by a recruiter for an initial screen. They then sent me a take-home coding assignment, which I completed above and beyond the requirements. This represented a significant expenditure of time and energy on my behalf without equal investment of their time, something I've seen with early stage startups (understandably) but not with such an established growth-stage company like this.
I was sent an auto-rejection email from Ashby without any feedback whatsoever.
Don't waste your time!
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Solace (Denver, CO)
Interview
It's 5 steps:
1) Recruitor
2) Codesignal test to implement react features
3) Technical interview where you do live programming
4) Culture fit interview
5) Final in person interview (they fly you out to one of their offices)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Be prepared to use AI and write a lot of react features. If you're good with react and/or Ai, it shouldn't be an issue.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Solace (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2025
Interview
Recruiter reached out to me and gave me an introductory interview to feel out if I was a good fit for the company. Sent me an assessment that had a broken docker image. Only had one person review it, and gave no feedback. They had warned they would do thi
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a standard express app with a dockerized postgres, make edits to it to fix common issues.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 8 days to get hired, when considering 6 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Solace overall takes an average of 14 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Solace as a Senior Software Engineer according to 6 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 50%
One on one interview: 25%
Phone interview: 25%
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