I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Upwork in Sep 2021
Interview
First I met with the recruiter, Kari, who was a top notch professional.
Next I met the hiring manager who moved me along to a panel of three more individual interviews.
This is where things get messy. The first person I interviewed with happened to be a very condescending, very confusing person to speak to. I was so thrown off by this experience. I had a guy basically mansplaining me while also admitting he wasn’t the expert in my field. It was confusing and unprofessional and turned me off of the whole idea of working for Upwork. He cut into the time of my next interview, and I was then given the feedback after all this that I was the unprofessional one.
Even if I had gotten an offer from this company, there is no way I’d take it. The small sample of Upwork employees I met included one toxic person that made me worry that there would be more people at the company like this person.
I want to say that after I gave all this feedback to the recruiter, she took it very seriously and said the person would be removed from the panel. But I think the damage has already been done. It will be hard to get a great person in that position if this person is making applicants feel awful. And it was confirmed I was the third person to make this complaint. So I feel bad for the hiring manager for this position.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Mostly situational. One panelist was an HR person who asked more “culture fit” questions.
I had a strange experience with this company. Recruiter call and then hiring manager. The hiring manager was oddly out of sorts and needing to settle since she was coming from a meeting. She set it up saying it would be a conversation/informal then asked loads of non-specific questions about my view of the marketing role/function. I got an email shortly after saying they had filled the role. My guess is that she had already made the decision on someone else and didn’t really want to learn about me. Very negative candidate experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What do you think specialization in marketing means?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Upwork (Tallin) in Sep 2021
Interview
I had 5 stages of the interview:
1. Communication with a recruiter
2. Two tasks on algorithms.
(On leetcode, this is the level: easy... maybe medium, but not sure)
3. "Coding Interview" is was just live programming.
The task was also simple. The interview was interesting, I enjoyed it. Thanks to interviewer Artem. It was cool!
4. "Algorithm / Fund Interview" is just a conversation.
Overall, I enjoyed it. But there were questions from the category: "How is var different from let and const"? I was confused and sometimes I didn't understand what position did I apply for? :D
5. Team Fit/Collaboration Interview
The interview was the same as the previous one. I mean, question - answer.
But I didn't like it. The questions were all about soft skils. But they cannot be answered in the abstract or use my expireance, and I think thet intervuer expect correct answer. P.s. Besides, it seems I had the opposite mine on some questions.
Example questions: "What to do if a manager came and said to do something in 3 days", "Who makes decisions about technologies"?
When the interview was close to the end, him phone rang and we immediately finished the interview. I think it was rude...
Throughout the interview, we could not find common ground. I also felt a kind of arrogance (or uncaring, it's hard to say) from the interviewer.
Result:
I got reject because my English is low (it's can be true).
For questions, I also assessed the company. In general, I can recommend it to my friends. Everything will depend on which team they get into. In my opinion, the level of knowledge of the interviewers was different.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Stage 5:
What to do if a manager came and said to do something in 3 days