I applied through other source. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at empowr (San Diego, CA) in Oct 2013
Interview
Terrible experience. Questions were dumb and irrelevant. Interview process was long because they take forever to get back to you. Was invited to come onsite for the final interview and before I did, I did my due diligence and did some research - Google/YouTube fanbox, sms.ac and you will find out all the info you need to know about this awful company. I'm writing this to warn other people out there that might get lured in by this company. All of the positive reviews you see on here are probably from their HR dept. I've never once found any positive information about this company. You won't find anything on empowr because they re-branded from fanbox but you will find a ton of negative information about sms.ac and fanbox. You are warned!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Skype interview was easy - basic tech interview. Take home test was an extremely poorly made test with terrible english. Questions made absolutely no sense they tried to use mathematical notation on some and it was completely incorrect! This was when the red flags started to go off. When you learn about their tech stack you will see they are still stuck in the early 2000's.
They kept rescheduling my initial interview, which was over the phone. The interview itself was fine, but then they asked me to design a solution to a word coding puzzle before scheduling an in-person interview. Well, they were displeased with my solution so I never got an in-person interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you rate your C# skills on a scale of 1-10?
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at empowr (San Diego, CA) in Jul 2018
Interview
It was really straight forward just basic question regarding the company and the technology they used the interviewer was really good at explaining what the company does in detail.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at empowr
Interview
1. Contacted by recruiter via LinkedIn
2. Initial phone screen with HR rep
3. Take-home coding challenge
4. On-site interview
The overall process was pretty standard based on interview experiences with other companies. However, after the on-site interview (in which I thought I did pretty well) I received zero further communication regarding whether I had passed the interview or not. I reached out twice to the HR rep who I had been working with throughout the interview process (and who normally would respond to emails quickly), and received no response.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The on-site interview involved a graph / path-finding problem.
