I applied online and had an initial call with HR. They were highly disinterested the whole time talking to me. They were very rushed and barely asked questions. I could easily tell that I was wasting her time. Needless to say I was rejected. This process was very unprofessional.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Valon in May 2025
Interview
Recruiter reached out and had a 30 minute screen. Set up a "general coding interview" (i.e. leetcode) and a behavioral with a hiring manager. Passing those would lead to two more techinical interview that were more relevant to the company.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
We have data on how our servicing team members reach out to homeowners for resolving escalations, but we’ve found that how we schedule calls is not optimal. We can schedule homeowner calls between the hours of 7am and 6pm, and we want to space out the time between the calls within a single day as much as possible for a single servicing team member to give them breaks between calls.
We want the time between calls to be as equally spaced out as possible. If there are multiple options of equally spaced out calls, we want to schedule the longer calls and longer breaks towards the beginning of the day.
Given a list of tuples (day of week, call duration in hours) of calls, implement a method to print out the most optimal call schedule. To simplify things, you can assume that calls must start at the beginning of an hour, and they last in increments of an hour.
I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Valon (San Francisco, CA) in Aug 2023
Interview
Begin with a recruiter chat and a behavioral interview with an engineering manager. Then, we followed with a 2.5 hour real-world coding problem. This interview is not leetcode style and consists of 1 hour of pair programming and 1 hour of solo programming then 30 minutes of a code review/walkthrough. If that goes well, the process ends with a system design interview.
