I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Apply Digital (São Paulo, São Paulo) in Feb 2024
Interview
- The first interview was with the HR, and it was very respectful, natural and smooth. She asked about me, my experiences and so on.
- Then they send you a home assignment you'll have 7 days to finish and will be further discussed in the technical interview.
- The second interview was the technical one, with an engineer and the manager. Unfortunately it was by far the worst techinical interview I have ever seen. 80% of the questions were about NICE TO HAVE requirements and they didn't run the application.
More details about the technical interview:
1. The engineer joined the meeting late and asked for a minute as he was looking for something (notes I'd say).
2. The manager was talk-active and trying to make a good conversation.
3. The engineer found what he was apparently looking for, and started the interview where they only asked a series of questions. He asked about 25 questions about NICE TO HAVE requirements, and about 10 about other topics.
4. After the series of questions, there was a code review, where they looked the code I sent. The first files they look is a Docker file, and he checks line by line. Docker was a NICE TO HAVE requirement. Right after, they check the ESlint file, asking me why I changed a specific line. For the last part, they checked my controllers and services and say it is fine.
My impressions:
1. It felt like an interrogatory as there was no conversations happening. Too many empty questions about nice to have requirements for the job position.
2. You will spend a good amount of time to fill up all the requirements for the home-assignment, which is not hard per se, but it takes time.
3. They didn't check if the application was running or if the endpoints would return what was asked for. It is disrespectful to have a candidate spend this amount of time on something, especially if you're more concerned about linter files.
If you think this is more important than controllers and services, it ok, really. But please change the job requirements.
4. The engineer didn't seem like a bad person, but he was definately not trained to interview anybody. The questions were extremely mechanical and he clearly did not know the requirements of the job position I was applying for.
5. They changed the interview dates 3 times. They also changed the time/day of the interview without asking me if it would be possible.
If you want to go for it, I say do it. Perhaps I wasn't lucky with the interviewers. But I am never applying again.
Thank you sincerely for taking the time to share this feedback; we appreciate it. We have an interview process that was not followed in this instance and apologize for this. We will relay this information to our hiring and engineering teams and inform them to revisit their interviewing processes.
Wishing you the best in your future endeavours. Take care,
Angela Hountalas
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Apply Digital (Vancouver, BC) in Apr 2019
Interview
The interview process was smooth. First there is a one hour technical interview. Then I went into 3 half an hour culture interviews with selected panel member, technical lead and one of the partners.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe what an app is to people who have never used apps
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 6 days. I interviewed at Apply Digital (Toronto, ON) in Mar 2021
Interview
It was a great experience interviewing with them, their approach was kind and a nice approach where they really wanted to get to know you as a person. There were a few rounds which was nice because you were introduced to new team members
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked me about my career goals which was refreshing because they seemed to care where I wanted to go in terms of my own growth