I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Macy's
Interview
I was given a referral to MAcy's technology. The engineering manager mailed the recruiter to schedule an introductory phone call with me. I was cc'ed in the mail. The company's recruiter sends a mail and asks me about availability. I let her know my availability but she's not free and eventhough I give a ton of availability she is not available to schedule a call!!!Are you doing a great favor to the candidate by scheduling a phone call.I mean really!!. I always think that the relationship between the employer and employee is symbiotic. And LO! One fine day I recieve a call from her and she puts me on hold because she was trying to search my resume on her system and trying to find out what position I had applied for? I did all the research on CrunchBase and glassdoor and read their engineering blogs too. When I can do the homework why can't the person who is interviewing? Finally, she finds my resume asks my availability again to schedule a phone interview with the engineering manager. On a scheduled day I had a good conversation with tech manager and he informs the recruiter to schedule a video interview. Guess what!! The same problem. The recruiter is too busy to hire someone. She is going to her home country for a vacation and so she passes of my case to another recruiter and guess what even though I send him my availabilities he is not responding. Because I am not his candidate!!!!The recruiter comes back from her home country after a month. I email the engg manager if he can conduct the interview? He obliges and sends a mail to recruiter. (I am cc'ed in all mails). And now story repeats...I am still waiting for recruiter's response... it's been 2 months.
I applied online. I interviewed at Macy's in Jan 2019
Interview
I interviewed for junior UI role. Had one phone screen with the recruiter, two technical phone screen with engineering manager, and 3 hour onsite. I really enjoyed speaking with the engineering manager and his questions were very fair. I got bunch of Javascript trivia that weren't too hard. Onsite didn't involve any coding which I thought was very weird and the most technical thing I did was going over my project. One round of interview was very unpleasant, I got asked some questions that weren't very fair and he looked pretty upset that I didn't know some of the questions.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Macy's (San Francisco, CA) in Nov 2017
Interview
Two phone call interviews, where I talked to a former intern/current full time and an engineering executive. I had a behavioral call with HR recruiter before the technical interviews. Fairly straightforward.