I applied through other source. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Sherpaa (New York, NY) in Jul 2015
Interview
I'd emailed one of the founders after perusing the blog. Sherpaa sounded like a very interesting take on an industry/need that's immeasurably difficult. My first interview (might have been a call — I can't remember now) went beautifully. I thought we got along swimmingly, had a great conversation, etc.
I was then brought in to meet a senior engineer. The conversations went well enough. I ended up visiting the office for 6 or so interviews, often with little warning to "answer a few more questions." One of these interviews was a reasonably in-depth working session followed by a take-home assignment, all of which I completed and came back to present.
After 6 interviews, I was told that an offer was forthcoming and that I'd have it in a couple of days (by the end of the week). The following week I hadn't heard anything and followed up — again I was told that they were ironing out the paperwork, etc.
Never heard anything back from them. My follow-ups with both people went completely unanswered. Needless to say, I was pissed. I can handle interviewing and not receiving an offer, but to put someone through the amount of work that I went through and then to promise them an offer — only to drop off the map? That's unacceptable and utterly rude.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions ranged from standard experience stuff to an in-depth working session revolving around how I might design a hypothetical application, followed by a take-home assignment to then design said app. There were also some very odd questions for a designer around how I'd handle data modeling and database structure (not data visualization — literally database needs) which should fall well outside the purview of a designer.
