I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Komodo Health
Accepted offer
Positive experience
Average interview
Application
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Komodo Health (New York, NY) in May 2022
Interview
The overall process was very thorough and very well rounded. The entire process takes about two weeks, give or take, with three personality or soft skill interviews and three technical interviews.
The soft skill interviews start with the HR and the hiring manager. This a great because you get to know how the company works and how the manager of the team manages before you get into the process too deep.
These interviews are followed up by two interviews with current data engineers. These are coding challenges (face-to-face or zoom) based. These are not hard and the interviewer is very welcoming of questions and talking through trouble areas.
These are followed by a system design interview, which for me ended up being a technical interview, but it gives you a chance to show a bit of how you think when faced with a large task.
The final interview is another soft skill interview, but it is geared much more toward questions from the interviewee, wherein you get to ask anything you can think of that might be a red flag around management, working conditions, co-workers, etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What steps do you take when you design a data pipeline?
The interview process was very smooth. I always had a point of contact that was quick to respond. Went through an HR screener, a technical screen, and a “super day” consisting of 4 interviews. Entire process took about 3-4 weeks.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Understand data modeling, the ETL process, and other data engineering principles. Be sharp in Python and SQL.
The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Komodo Health
Interview
Fairly standard tech interview process, recruiter call, technical round, and onsite
The recruiters are awesome, and the company's product is interesting also, however employees mention being swamped with work. When I met with the hiring manager on the last interview he was dismissive and answered an email during the meeting. After which he wanted me to spend my weekend on some trivial, but time-consuming coding challenge, after the onsite, which I skipped. Really just not respectful of my time, they'll continue to lose candidates to companies that know what they're doing.