I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at ShiftWise (Portland, OR) in Jan 2015
Interview
Phone interview was a standard affair. There were no trick questions. A code sample is mandatory to get hired. The problem is not hard to solve. The way you approach the problem counts for a lot overall. Being able to represent a mature approach to problem solving is key. Several questions around your solution will be asked. Be prepared to compare different technologies and give your opinion on their merits.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Think of a time you had someone change code you wrote, for the worse. How did you react?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at ShiftWise (Portland, OR) in Nov 2015
Interview
Contacted by outside recruiter. Interview process consisted of 1. Tech phone screen with the engineering manager 2. Coding exercise, implement a simple program with some functionality and write tests for it. 3. Come into office (2 weeks later) for 3hr interview, where first, your coding exercise program is reviewed with the engineering manager and another engineer, then as a test you will fix any flaws/bugs in your program. The next two sessions I had were with an engineer and a test engineer, then with an engineer and product owner. These sessions were questions about my work experiences and the standard behavior questions. The last two sessions was rather lackluster, seems like the people were just winging it with the questions and wasn't really prepared. Some came in with the default sheet of standard interview questions and ran out after a few minutes, most of the time I was the one who was asking them about their process, culture and environment... In any case it seemed like a pretty good company with an interesting technology stack to work with. I thought it went fairly well but I didn't get an offer with the feedback of not being clear enough on why I wanted to work there. Which sounds like a standard line for "you're probably not a good fit here". It happens... cheers!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell us about a time were you had a disagreement with....
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at ShiftWise
Interview
They have a 3 step process. Step 1: phone interview, step 2: 72 hour programming challenge, step 3 in-person interview.
I did a 45 minute phone interview with them. Which I felt pretty good about the interview, I thought I answered all the questions well pretty well. The questions were all about Javascript and C#.
However, they made their decision not to allow me to proceed further than the phone interview because of just one question. When they asked me to rate my AngularJS skill level from a range of 1-5, I said 3 but said I didn't have much experience other than training courses and personal projects. They decided not to ask me any AngularJS questions. They didn't give me the chance to prove my skill. They made this decision not on my technical proficiency but on my ability to evaluate my skill level using their arbitrary rating system.
I was really looking forward to the programming challenge too.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
On a scale of 1-5 rate your skill in (C#, JavaScript, AngularJS).