I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Artera (Des Moines, IA) in Jan 2022
Interview
HR call. They mainly focusing on my technical skills. I asked about the team layouts, managers, etc. Asked about parental benefits (they're generous). I learned about their position in funding as a startup. Talked about next steps.
Manager interview. Talked about my technical background. Discussed reporting structure. How often 1:1s occur. Core hours with distributed team. Best practices etc.
Virtual On-site interview. Was three interviews back to back with engineers. Two frontend one backend.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
First interview:
Explain javascript array map, filter and reduce.
What is a promise?
Explain const vs let.
Coding exercise:
- Falsy vs truthy principles
More questions:
- React lifecycle mehods and hooks
- What happens with setState in react (rerender)
- Optimizing react components
- Memoization
Excercise:
- For loop with var instead of const or let (looking at closure)
Asked about pure components (I wasn't familiar)
Asked about the event lifecycle loop in JS (I wasn't familiar)
Second interview:
Long form coding exercise on making an API call and using a modal in react.
Third interview:
Mainly cultural.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Artera (Budapest) in Jan 2025
Interview
The initial round was a standard HR session. 2. Team fit interview with Engineering manager. 3. Technical round with 2 engineers from the project. Some technical questions were asked then the rest of the session focused on coding. I had to fix a smaller code, which came from a legacy codebase and there was a coding challenge task. After 2 weeks I did not get any feedback. I wrote 2 mails to the HR and to the Recruiter, nobody give me any response, they just simple ghosted me. I am really disappointed due to the ghosting. Seems really unprofessional behavior and I think this tells a lot about the company.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Artera
Interview
First round consists of 30 min recruiter phone screen conversation,
Next round consists of 30 min hiring manager interview conversation,
Final round consists of several back to back interviews with software engineers and ends with conversation with engineering VP
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe time complexity
Tell me about a time you displayed adaptability
