Candidates applying for Front End Developer roles take an average of 66 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Ubiquiti overall takes an average of 25 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Ubiquiti as a Front End Developer according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 50%
Phone interview: 33%
Group panel interview: 17%
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I applied online. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Ubiquiti (Portland, OR) in Mar 2023
Interview
From the day I first applied to the day I got an email saying they were “hoping to know more in the next week or two” just shy of FOUR months had passed. (Spoiler: They did not reach out in one or two weeks or ever bother to contact me again.) After a very brief call there was a technical challenge that they used to weed out 90% of applicants. It took more than half a week of workday hours; we were told to take our time and “have fun with it”. I don’t normally do free work for fun, and it was not paid (FYI Ubiquiti, that is something that good companies do). A little over week after submitting the technical project I started to wonder if there were a problem because there was no response or any indication it was received. They eventually replied to my email saying they were still reviewing it. Three weeks after submitting I was invited to have a quick call. It was nothing I would describe as a full interview and lasted less than ten minutes. There was a salary discussion, and they managed to avoid naming a range even after I said I preferred not to give the initial number and directly asked what their range was. (I eventually named a number at the lower end of what Glassdoor identified as their range, and was told that they would likely be able to work with that.) They said that I and one other person out of 13 or 14 applicants had passed the technical challenge. After another brief conversation I was invited to come into the office to see if it was a good “culture fit.” The office visit included a bit of a wait and an assistant giving me a tour of their ghost town of an office. They might not have said “you’re hired” but I walked out of there with a strong impression that they would be sending the paperwork the next day. Phrases like “this is where you’ll sit”, claims that people with my kinds of experiences do really well at Ubiquity, vocalizing extreme excitement about me as a hire, indicating that they were running it up the line and that I’d get an email tomorrow (I thought he meant the paperwork). When the follow up email never came, I realized I had been gaslit into thinking I had the job when they were actually stringing me along. I noticed later that I was not the first person that was led to believe they were hired when they were not (thanks Glassdoor!) Glassdoor reviewers also indicate a pattern of employees being coerced into writing fake reviews to boost their ratings.
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The ‘quick conversations’ didn’t really include interview type questions. During the office visit they asked about work from home. They said something like ‘they’re opening up the office—how much will you be coming in?’ They didn’t seem to like my answer, which was that I’d be coming in every day until it was clear that I had mastered the role, but after that I’d like to spend several days a week days working from home. (I’d previously been assured by them that the company was very flexible when it came to WFH.) They also didn’t seem to like that I asked whether I’d actually be able to take any time off with their “unlimited PTO”— it seemed clear that there was actually very little PTO granted in practice.
The process starts with a phone screen, followed by a brief online technical interview. After that, you'll be assigned a task with no strict time limit—typically around one to two weeks to complete. Once submitted, your work will be evaluated
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Question 1
I received a Figma design and an API endpoint for a task. The goal is to fetch data using the provided URL and populate the UI with searchable items. Additionally, the UI should be toggleable between list view and grid view.
Very unprofessional, they have you do a call with the team and then send you a coding challenge where you have to make a whole web application that took me a week working full time. During this process they're super communicative but after a week or so after I submitted it they ghosted me. Totally understand if the work wasn't up to standard and they sent a rejection email soon after but it felt disrespectful to ghost someone instead of just telling them especially after making them put in so much time.
I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Ubiquiti in Aug 2023
Interview
Got an email from HR saying that I was selected to move forward and that I was going to get a test of my knowledge of coding. The "test" is what I could only describe as a 25-30+ hr project that you are expected to do in a week, in your free time for free. The difficulty of the interview didn't come from any advance coding or feature demands but the time commitment required. You also don't speak to any humans during the process which never bodes well. It also was damning that the other reviews here mentioned getting ghosted after completing the project.
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Question 1
Create a full fledged application that fetches from an API, filters, sorts, and searches from a list of products.