Candidates applying for Senior Backend Developer roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Toptal overall takes an average of 22 days.
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Toptal
Interview
From my experience. Toptal might not be for everyone.
CV submission
Codility test (3 questions - 90 mins)
- Easy to medium difficulty from a leet code perspective
- It is important to get your solutions correct and run efficiently in some cases
- You might not have time to finish all
Technical screening
- Questions about your Codility test
- Two coding questions to solve in 15 mins. They are not hard but time constraints make it challenging. Here they are not looking for best practices, just solve the problem
- If you don't finish the interview is stopped. To be honest it felt like a competition / game show
You also get frequent reminders to complete your CV, tests and to attend the interview throughout the process
If you fail your can wait 1 month to reapply from the stage you left off. Failing that you will have to wait even longer
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions about Codility test
Your experience in different languages and frameworks