I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Fathom in May 2026
Interview
Extremely long process, took 7 weeks from initial contact to rejection with the meaningless "the team really liked you but made the difficult decision to move forward with another candidate" cr*p. Anyway, was on the fence if I'd even accept an offer as throughout it seemed like they're constantly fire fighting, expectations of 50hrs+ (straight up asked for) and competitors with deeper pockets. Almost all interviewers were friendly and thoughtful but one seemed aggressive/negative from the get go. They're also recording all interviews with their own system, asking for consent and the option to also get access to the recording, this only worked for the initial recruiter chat though
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Take home: Write a server that accepts/serves rtmp connections and shuts down gracefully with some rules.
Other common questions like tell me about a time ...