Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Whova as 100% positive with a difficulty rating score of 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Software Engineer and rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Software Engineer and roles were rated as the easiest.
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I was given a take-home project to analyze user data followed by an interview where we went over a python coding question, my take-home project, and a mock research scenario. Data team up to this point was very nice but the final round had major red flags. I interviewed with one of the co-founders (head of engineering) for the final round and he made several unprofessional and frankly inappropriate comments and questions about me, my background, and my family. He called my resume "simple" even though I was just a new grad, proceeded to call my academic background "different", and then asked me what my parents thought about all this. He questioned whether or not I would enjoy a full-time data analyst position given my "different interests". No one deserves this level of unprofessionalism regardless of academic or professional background. After receiving the written offer, I asked whether there was flexibility on compensation and requested a brief extension to review the offer. The company chose to withdraw the offer rather than continue the discussion. Don't recommend and be sure to stay analytical of 5 star reviews. Many of them are worded similarly, especially in the cons section ("definitely fast paced", "high expectations", "no notable cons at the moment"). Job market is bad right now but make sure to always stand up for yourself.
Three rounds of interviews, I made it to the second. Between the first and the second, there is a take-home assessment. This assessment may or may not be discussed during your second interview. The first interview was supposed to be with a hiring manager, but instead was with the manager of the QA team. The first interview started off typical, then my transcript was picked apart, as well as my prior experiences which were not directly engineering focused, despite my degree being in Computer Science... I was also asked to name responsibilities from the job posting as well as specific features of the product, and was asked follow-up questions to basically everything. The take-home assessment took probably 3-4 hours, and was not mentioned in the slightest during the second interview. The second interview was with the same manager and another member of the QA team, and was a mix of repeated questions from the first interview, as well as a quiz and a bug-finding exercise. The quiz was insane. It included knowing the regions the product is available in, the exact use cases of the product for customers, naming several competitors, what the product does better than competitors, naming several customers of the product, if I had downloaded the mobile app, features of the mobile app, and their app store rating........ The bug-finding exercise was "fun" but I was given 15 minutes to find 3 design and 3 technical bugs in a sandbox product. Then second half of the second interview was with a different team member, and began with implementing fibonacci recursively and iteratively, and explaining the space and time complexity of both approaches, and was followed by writing pseudocode for hypothetically testing a particular service on a webpage. The third interview would have been with an engineer on another team and would have been Leetcode-style, allegedly.
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Tell us about a time where you went above and beyond in a prior role.
Interviewed with one of the co-founders for the first round. We scheduled the interview for the same day they reached out, so the process was very quick. Very interested in my background and why I wanted to pivot to HR.
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Question 1
How would you respond to an employee asking to work from home on a different day of the week rather than the standard Friday work from home model?