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      Freelance Developer Interview

      3 Mar 2022
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience

      Other Freelance Developer interview reviews for Toptal

      Freelancer Developer Interview

      7 Jul 2017
      Anonymous employee
      Madīnat Sittah Uktūbar
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Toptal in Apr 2021

      Interview

      I had a phone screen and a video call before taking the skills assessment. Both interviews were pretty useless, talking to people very low on the chain with little or no development experience. But the skills assessment was a real nightmare. They will give you a limited time to answer three questions. These questions were ambiguous enough that I answered as best I could within the hour provided, and submitted. They wrote me back a week later saying I scored something ridiculous like 10/600. It was an insult to my skills, as I know I am worth more than 1% of a "real" programmer. I can take the low score, but there was no attempt to follow up with correct answers. Just re-apply in six months? Why would I. You asked me to apply, not the other way around. The real cherry on top is today they cold emailed me like we have never met before. No thanks. Run far away. Go get your own clients. Lots of people need developers, don't work for this people.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Very stupid Algo questions about geometry when I literally write HTML and CSS all day long.
      Answer question
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Toptal (Madīnat Sittah Uktūbar) in Jul 2017

      Interview

      the interview has more than step .. I finished two steps so far. 1- a behavioral interview which was on Hangouts and it was pretty nice and friendly. 2- coding test interview on Codility.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      1- the behavioral interview was just about collecting some information about me and about my experience. 2- the coding test was a bit difficult .. it was about 3 programming problems .. the first was fairly easy dealing with the array properties ... the 2nd was about binary trees and the 3rd was the most difficult i think ,,it was about finding the best path.
      1 Answer

      Freelance Developer Interview

      11 Feb 2016
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Toptal in Feb 2016

      Interview

      Applying was easy enough, but I was unimpressed with the punctuality of the interviewer and did not have a chance to actually interview because he wasn't able to show up when he said he would. I scheduled a time with the interviewer over a week in advance and logged onto Skype shortly before that time - this had actually broken my momentum on an important development project because I didn't want to get involved in it shortly before the call. The interviewer was busy and had to reschedule for two hours later, which further prevented me from getting anything done but was acceptable enough - stuff happens. He then did not show up two hours later either, which is where I draw the line. This was highly unprofessional and wasted most of a day of my time, which I am sure I'll never be able to bill them for. The kicker is that they then sent an email the next day, probably from a bot, essentially blaming me for missing the interview and demanding that I reschedule. I'm done with them unless they want to compensate me for the time they wasted.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Can we reschedule for 8:30?
      1 Answer
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