Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Etsy 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 25% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 7 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Etsy overall takes an average of 52 days.
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Multiple stage interview process, including technical stages of different types. I only spoke with the initial hiring manager as after learning more about the interview process and role it didn't align with my expectations
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What was most exciting about the role that made it stand out from other positions I was applying for.
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Etsy
Interview
Long process:
Coffee Chat (30 minutes, mostly me asking questions)
Months later I got an email saying thanks for doing the Coffee Chat and if I saw any applicable jobs online I could indicate I was referred from Coffee Chat.
Recruiter Screen (30 minutes)
Coding Challenge
Recruiter Followup to explain final onsite process
Final Onsite: 4 hours of interviews.
In the end it was a waste of time because the recruiter informed me I could work in a location that turned out to be unavailable. Mistakes happen, but this was a big error that led to me being very excited by an offer that I ultimately couldn't accept because of the location.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Etsy (Ciudad de Mexico) in Oct 2023
Interview
first interview was a code screening, then a full round of final interviews [systems design, coding, behavioral, hiring manager]. The coding session was great, they gave me a cloud env environment with some CRUD projects with a bunch of bugs and some missing features that needed development.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Take this CRUD project and find any bugs, fix them and then take a list of missing features and implement them. Finally, assess how can this code base be improved.