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      Senior Front-end Web Developer Interview

      13 Oct 2019
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Portland, OR
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at AltSource (Portland, OR) in Oct 2019

      Interview

      Approx 30 min chat with a hiring manager, then was invited in-house. I was one of the lucky ones (from reading other reviews) who wasn't asked to do take home homework although I do have experience and fairly significant public code. I don't think I could have done better for the first 3/4 and feel if anything I had more experience than my two interviewers. But then came the whiteboard part (see below) which I utterly failed. Even though I feel academic whiteboard exercises are a terrible way to gauge engineers (esp front end), I accept responsibility for not even being able to get my butt out of the chair. That said, this is a place that GOES OUT OF THEIR WAY to claim open mindedness and desire to hire people with different backgrounds. I found the exact opposite to be the case. I have interviewed (and worked with) a lot of companies in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Portland, and even internationally and I can tell you they are closer in the spectrum of "open" to a closed clam shell that I've ever seen. They know that I'm good at what I do, but they claimed that we had "a bit of disconnect" from a communication standpoint (obviously, they're referring to my ability to "communicate" academic algorithms from memory, without Google with the team, which you know, comes up every day for front end devs...). TBH it's probably for the best they rejected me. They're smug and full of themselves and they have to follow a terrible application of scrum where it's musical chairs for tasks. Don't get attached to your work, you're going to pulled on and off of anything at random. Ironically, you'd think a company who really believed in a diversity of talent would strive for a system that could utilize that talent and distribute it where it belongs rather than something so generic.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Lots of React specific questions, especially about state management. Some random other trivia questions like what is method overloading. Soft skill style questions such as what do I wish to get out of my next position. Create a function on a whiteboard that accepts two strings returning true if they are an anagram of each other.
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