Interview process was straightforward and fair. Everyone I met and spoke with was pleasant and professional. The recruiter even called to inform me of them moving on and gave me an opportunity to ask questions instead of a typical email. The process was
- Phone Screen
- Coding Challenge (1 hour) This was done through Karat and the interviewer was great and question was reasonable.
- 4 hour interview with the team which consisted of 2 hours coding, 1 hour system design and 1 hour behavioral with a manager. The 2 hours coding were easy and applicable. They weren’t leetcode questions which was nice. The 1 hour system design was to design a well known application. The last hour consisted of standard behavioral questions.
I applied through university. I interviewed at Compass (Bellevue, WA)
Interview
Pretty chill. Three rounds of debugging, technical (leetcode), and behavioral, which was more like high-level with AI assistance. The values did not come up very much while going through the interview process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Had us do an AI round about forms and matching things.
Debugging, technical, then behavioral. I had been given two language options for the debugging portion (Java or Python) during the phone interview then when I went to the onsite there seemed to be a miscommunication because the interview said I could use JS since I was applying as a frontend engineer. The debugging was pretty doable, the behavioral was odd but fine.
The interview process felt chaotic and poorly organized. What I was asked in the interview didn’t align with what HR told me to expect, and the interview started late. The lack of alignment between HR and the interviewer made it feel like the company overall may be chaotic. Afterward, HR’s follow-ups were generic and robotic, and the employer also mentioned layoffs, which added to the uncertainty. Overall, it didn’t feel worth the effort.
