I applied online. The process took 6 days. I interviewed at YLD (London, England) in Jun 2017
Interview
Applied on their webpage and got invited to a telephone interview. Telephone interview got cancelled without warning a few times, then two separate people tried to call me.
Finally managed to talk to somebody and was asked to do a sample assignment, which I did. I was then told to remove the solution from my personal github-account, lest it influence other applicants (it's a simple string-parsing exercise, nothing for which you'd have to desperately scour github at random). Complied.
Received a rejection with feedback about my assignment saying that
- it accepts invalid inputs (it doesn't, I triple checked)
- it throws errors when you give it incorrect input (that's what code should do)
- the indentation style was "very hard" to understand (two spaces. Shouldn't be too difficult.)
I asked for clarification, received no reply. A day wasted. Very unprofessional. :(
Hi there,
Thanks for your feedback. I'm really sorry to hear that you didn't have a good experience during the recruitment journey. We're trying to do our best to give our candidates a good and positive experience during the process, no matter what the outcome could be... and we'd be really happy to have a chat with you and try to understand what went wrong. Please feel free to email us at: Bradley@yld.io
Positive experience
Average interview
Application
I interviewed at YLD (London, England)
Interview
It was good. Relaxed and interviewer was skilled at asking good questions to determine understanding. There wasn't any overt pressure and even if not offer I would have been happy with the experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical question was building a algorithm that is roughtly medium on leetcode
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at YLD in Nov 2021
Interview
I applied online and got an email for an interview with a recruiter to know more about my experiences and the job.
Then I had to complete an assigment and had another interview where I was shown some code and had to understand and answer some questions about it
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There were a lot of questions to see if I understand React hooks
Skype interview with technical manager, which felt like it went very well.
Take home coding challenge, which I completed and solved all the objectives.
Skype interview to solve a live coding challenge, a few ropey moments but definitely solved the problem, to the point where one interviewer asked me to stop as they said I answered the question, and they had more time for general interview questions.
Didn't even get a message back saying yes or no from the recruiter, after about 2 months. Considering the amount of time I invested after carrying out their take-home challenge (even after they said there would not be a take-home challenge), I think this is pretty rude, and possibly reassures me I'm better to not get an offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write code to parse a nested class which can contain other classes or strings
Thank you for the feedback. I can understand that this must have been annoying. Not sure why you didn't get feedback, but we'll review our processes to make sure this doesn't happen in future.
Best of luck in your career nonetheless.