Me postulé a través de un reclutador. Acudí a una entrevista en Heap (San Francisco, CA) en mar 2020
Entrevista
I was first contacted by a recruiter via a recruiting agency and had a preliminary conversation with the recruiter from Heap. After this, there was a behavioral phone interview geared toward role and fit. Third, a standard technical phone screen interview using HackerRank. Lastly, a fairly long, but enjoyable, on-site.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
The on-site is a series of software development tasks to develop a program that is similar to part of the Heap software solution. Each section of the interview builds on the previous adding more functionality.
Most of the interview is spent writing actual code that will run and can be demoed. This interview format was a refreshing change from the standard whiteboard interviews used many places.
Me postulé a través de otra fuente. El proceso tomó 2 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Heap (San Francisco, CA)
Entrevista
Skipped resume review via interviewing.io; which by itself said great things about diversity in the company. Clever technical questions; but the last one (about databases) kind of dragged out. Database-related-experience wasn't in either their job description or my resume, but they kept on it well past the point where I ran out of prior knowledge to use and examples to list; just spending >10 minutes poking without hints. Confusing ending to an otherwise pleasant process.
El proceso tomó 3 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Heap
Entrevista
Overall, this process was very thorough:
- initial interview
- coding interview
- virtual on-site:
- - 2 more coding interviews
- - systems design
- - product demo
- - pm interview
- - values interview
I learned a lot about the company, product, and development process, and I had a chance to talk with a lot of people. Everyone was really friendly and smart. It took a lot of time, but I think it was worth it.
However, I was a little miffed about how they handled my cohort. After completing the virtual on-site (and spending a lot of time on this process), I was told that they had already filled all the current engineer reqs, and they would have to ask for more money to potentially hire ahead for next year. I felt like they should have finished the interview process with all candidates before proceeding to make offers, and it wasn’t fair to those of us who interviewed after they filled all their reqs. In the end, they told me I didn’t quite make it, which is fine, and I guess I’ll never know about the details. I just felt a little shorted that they made a bunch of offers the week before I finished my six interview on-site.
Despite that, I thought it was a great company with really smart, friendly people. Seems like it would be a great place to work.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
I was going to write a question here but eh, that seems a little unfair to Heap.
- Regular Behavior questions
- Matrix exercise
It was an average experience, you should practice the kind of questions I just put above. This Glassdoor rule of 50 word minimum is really stupid.