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).
The good selection process, interviews, and the test task.
First, talk with the recruiter, with with the hiring manager, another interview with cross-functional team and with the last one with the Department Head
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Toptal in Sep 2021
Interview
Stage 1: Call with HR. Asked about Roles,Technologies
Stage 2: Coding challenge of 1 hour. Contains basic Linux questions, Terraform questions and AWS questions. Also 2 tasks to write a simple script and do a Git commit related activity.
Stage 3: Technical Interview . He has asked about Kubernetes , Ansible, Docker, Terraform, Ansible related questions . Also given me a coding challenge in python (we can choose our language) to complete in 10 minutes.
In my case, the technical round went well but coding in 10 minutes was impossible for me and can't google.
The interviewer was really awesome and updated me can't proceed further as I have failed to complete coding challenge. He also given advice me how to improve the coding skills and advised me to try in 3 months.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1.Highly available infrastructure for a heavy traffic shopping website.
2.Idempotent modules in ansible.
3. How to reduce docker image size.
4. Difference between different LBs in AWS.
5. Kubernetes: Secrets, RBAC, Liveness & Readiness Probe. etc.
Many questions were there, can't remember fully.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Toptal (Sídney) in Nov 2021
Interview
The online interview took place by Bluejeans, which is zoom like but not good to use.
First Screening is done with codility and there are 3 questions that need to be done within 70 mins.
The interviewer is a senior engineer. Firstly, the interviewer asked me where do I live and some basic questions, but the interviewer's mood is extremely bad and did not show basic respect with a person. Because of the online interview, the interviewer asked to look at the middle of the camera, otherwise he would doubt you read something.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why are you looking for this job?
What is redux?
What is redux-saga?