I had a call with an engineering manager which broadly covered my technical background, past engineering cultures, and what I was looking for in my next role.
This was followed by a technical interview which involved reviewing a PR with 2 other engineers. It was low pressure and everyone was super nice (and understanding that I didn't know Angular and TypeScript) . It felt much more like we were collaborating on day-to-day work, compared to other interviews.
After that, I had an interview with a PM about collaboration and an informal chat with the CTO.
I was really impressed with the emphasis on diversity (spoken about from the first conversation) and just how open and kind everyone was. People were also candid from the get go.
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Question 1
Imagine you received this PR from a coworker and needed to do a code review. What would you look for?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Splice
Interview
There was a series of 6 interviews, two of which were technicals, with the remainder being culture fit interviews with the direct manager, prospective team members, cross functional teams, and VP of engineering.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One of the technical screens involved a system design interview where I penciled out the architecture given a business need prompt. The other was a code review exercise. Culture fit questions involved company values, questions about diversity, and things about me and my background to get a feel for my personality.
Interview process consisted of:
1. Phone screening with recruiter
2. Interview with team manager
3. Interview with two dev leads(?) on soft skills-type questions
4. Interview with designer regarding process, working with product, collaboration, etc.
5. Quasi-technical interview with an engineer
6. System design interview
7. Discussion with head of engineering
This interview was unusual in that I only met the team lead and the designer working with the team; all other interviews were with members of other teams.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
For part 5, the interview with an engineer, I was asked about my approach to problem solving, tackling tickets, about bugs I had solved in the past, some questions about scalability, availability, and so on.
For part 6, I was presented with a system challenge related to a poor internet connection and asked to solve it. General sys design interview prep was helpful.
It started with a phone convo with a recruiter type person. The call was friendly and informative. I then had a call with the hiring manager, which was also a good call / very friendly. The technical questions were basic, but I think reasonable enough to make anyone think, yet not ridiculously difficult.
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Splice with 2.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 62.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 9 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Splice overall takes an average of 26 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Splice as a Software Engineer according to 9 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 26%
One on one interview: 19%
Group panel interview: 15%
Presentation: 15%
Drug test: 7%
Skills test: 7%
Background check: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Other: 4%
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