My Leafly interview experience was transparent and fair. It did not reflect some of the negative experiences of prior reviewers here on Glassdoor. I've gotten the impression that the interview process has significantly changed in the past six months or so, and most of the reviews here are a bit older. I'm writing a detailed review to more closely reflect the current process at Leafly, at least as I experienced it. When comparing my Leafly interview experience to other interview processes I've had or I've heard about from friends in the Seattle tech industry, I would put it at the very top of the list in terms of fairness and transparency. To start, I had a thirty-minute chat with one of the recruiters. This was a great chance to learn more about the interview process and hear about Leafly's mission and goals. I appreciated that the recruiter collected information about my hopes around salary and benefits at the start, to determine if we were on the same page about what was possible at Leafly. From there, we set up a remote tech screen. They sent me the detailed interview prompt for the tech screen question a couple of days in advance of the interview, which gave me time to review key technical concepts before the actual interview. The problem itself involved skills like building a basic Ruby/Rails app, pulling and parsing information from an API, and storing information in Redis. The skills were all relevant to the types of things developers do on a day to day basis. After the tech phone screen, Leafly promptly communicated that they were moving forward with the next step - a three-hour loop at the Leafly offices. The loop involved two 45-minute, 1-1 behavioral interviews with a UX designer and a product manager and two 60-minute technical interviews. As a junior to mid-level software development candidate, I found the technical interviews to be refreshing in that there were no 'gotcha' logic problems or complex whiteboarding algorithm problems. The problems seemed designed to be collaborative and the aim was less about getting a correct answer than it was about having a conversation and seeing if we liked to work together. They also asked some behavioral questions during my technical interviews. I had the strong impression that the interviewers had coordinated beforehand so that they did not repeat certain concepts or questions - I appreciated this thoughtfulness around the interview. All of my interviewers gave me plenty of time to ask them questions about Leafly and their experiences. I came away from the interview feeling positive about Leafly as an organization, and also felt that the people interviewing me wanted to give me a chance to show them what I knew and do my best work.

I interviewed with the CTO, who was not friendly at all, and asked me really boring and easy questions about linked lists, and very strange CSS questions about how Twitter Bootstrap was implemented. He honestly sounded like he was being punished having to interview me. He did not give me any time to ask questions, he just said "Well, I've got to go. Bye." and hung up the phone.