This was a waste of time for the candidate. They conduct their initial tech screen through a third party (karat), which I passed. If you are deemed good enough based on that, THEN you get the opportunity to speak with the recruiter, who would then go over your resume and background with you. After this, then they decide if you are worthy of pursuing for next steps, which also sound time consuming based on other interviews posts. Anyway, the recruiter contacted me later saying that they had not decided to continue with me. Why make me go through a technical screening, especially with a third party, if you are going to reject me based on my resume, when I was initially extended the screening based on (presumably) my resume? Have some decency to respect the applicants and their time. I've been interviewing with a LOT of companies (20+) in the past month and Mulesoft is the first and only company where I have felt disrespected by for the whole process (this wasn't the only company that used Karat - others were more courteous at least). Needless to say, I don't think I will ever apply here again during the rest of my career, and discourage my peers from doing so as well. Seriously. Show some respect. From beginning to the end, Mulesoft has left a very sour taste in my mind. Would not want to work for them, and would be very against my company (whichever it may be in the future) using them based on how they operate.
I'm so sorry you had a bad experience and felt your time was wasted. Thank you for exposing cracks in our system—if you're open to it, I'd be happy to chat with you directly if you'd like to shoot me an email. We take interviewing seriously, and are by no means perfect. I can assure you while we messed up here, we meant no disrespect.
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I applied online. I interviewed at MuleSoft in Jul 2021
Interview
written as well as interview round and manager round regarding technical as well as work experience
first was a 1 hour machine test and got a call after a month
interview was regarding apis and job description and what would the work entail
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at MuleSoft in Jan 2019
Interview
1) Phone screening with HR
2) HackerRank challenge. Not hard. 3hs of work.
3) Interview with your future manager.
4) Technical interview onsite with 2 engineers. Whiteboarding session (algorithms and data structures). 1:30hs
5) Interview with the Engineer Manager.
6) Round table, salary negotiation.
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Difficult interview
Application
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at MuleSoft (Buenos Aires) in Jun 2019
Interview
Uff sí que hay un proceso... ¿les sirve? relativamente, yo creo que no. Tomenló obviamente como mi opinión subjetiva porque no me contrataron :-)
Consiste en una serie de entrevistas: Llamada introductoria con RRHH, algo de charla en Inglés, actividad de programación colaborativa (vos programás un ejercicio tipo facultad y 2 te miran), actividad de diseño (te ponen un problema y te evalúan en diseño, conocimiento de complejidad computacional, etc.), entrevista con Director de Ingeniería, entrevista con líder del sector donde te tomarían.....
Si hice todo lo anterior fue porque estaba interesado, los beneficios eran muy buenos, después como empresa no logré conocer más que esta etapa de selección y me resultó lamentable la forma de informar que luego de todo este esfuerzo no habías quedado: un mail genérico desde una casilla 'no-reply' (muy pobre desde el punto de vista humano).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Preguntas no faltaron, de todo tipo, quizás lo que menos esperaba eran temas que no veía desde la universidad: algoritmos con grandes volumenes de datos, manejo de archivos, problemas de escasés de memoria para estructuras, órden de complejidad de las búsquedas.