I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Olive (Columbus, OH)
Interview
1 - Phone call with HR
2 - Phone call with Senior Developer
3 - A three part onsite interview lasting 2.5 hours
- Part 1 was 2 regular devs and what their work entails
- Part 2 was 2 senior devs and some coding challenges
- Part 3 was the director of IT and some high level discussion about Olive as well as my career goals. This is where I was asked about compensation.
RED FLAG: I was told that part of the reason I did not get an offer was because I asked each round of interviewers what their work life balance was like. Yikes!
RED FLAG: I was told that part of the reason I did not get an offer was because of my communication style, and yet I was told by the HR guy and the referring employee how much they enjoyed talking to me. Also, the HR guy 3 times dropped the ball on calling me when he said he would. Seems hypocritical to judge me by my communication style when you struggle to communicate yourself.
RED FLAG: I was told that part of the reason I did not get an offer was because of compensation. An initial request of $85k (they did not attempt to negotiate) is not a crazy amount for a developer with 5 years experience whom multiple interviewers said was definitely capable and technically sound.
RED FLAG: I was told that part of the reason I did not get an offer was because I was cautious about joining the team and so they weren't sure I really wanted to be in the role. Are they only interviewing college grads or people from terrible jobs that are drooling over the opportunity to work there? What's wrong with not wanting to bolt from my job to work at theirs without careful consideration? Wouldn't someone like that be just as ready to bolt from Olive?
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In addition to typical interview questions, I was asked about teamwork/conflict examples, I had to create a small example workflow with them on their laptop, I had to whiteboard 3 coding challenges (if you're not good at coding, you will fail this part), and then solve a logic challenge (which they struggled to explain and then after solving it they struggled to show their way of solving it).