Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Toptal as 25% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3.75 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for UI & UX Designer and Front End Developer rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Product Manager and Frontend Developer roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Toptal takes an average of 40 days when considering 4 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for UI & UX Designer had the quickest hiring process (on average 30 days), whereas Product Manager roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 49 days).
Had the technical interview, gave a problem with 15 minutes to do it. I failed the test, search the problem in popular code (leetcode, etc) problem was there, no solution added. I asked a buddy that was already working there, we agreed his test was very easy compared to mine. Live coding interviews are very random.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Toptal in Dec 2021
Interview
1st stage - video presentation of yourself
2nd stage - algorythms interview (2 not hard tasks)
3rd stage - homework (quite a big assignment that took about 8-9 hours)
4th stage - interview with a seniour developer about the homework (run tests, tell about the solution, fix bugs)
And I got a negative experience at the end since I was declined just because of couple of minor bugs. I'm sure 100% these guys do these bugs too. I don't understand what's the problem with a little bug if I covered with tests all other possible cases, they work fine and I was able to fix the bug right here right now?
Waste of quite big amount of time. Super weird politics with zero bug tollerance.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Toptal in Jan 2020
Interview
The interview process contained 4 steps.
I talked to the internal recruiter who coordinated the entire process and informed me about everything. I had interviews with a lead designer, head of design, one other designer, and a person from the people team. Feedback was very fast and the entire process was around 7 days.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I have been asked to say something about myself, and about my decision to join Toptal. Besides those usual questions, I've been asked to describe my design process and to give some suggestions on how would I solve some design challenges.