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      Staff Engineer Interview

      12 Apr 2023
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience

      Other Staff Engineer interview reviews for HelloFresh

      Staff Engineer Interview

      16 Mar 2023
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at HelloFresh in Feb 2023

      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at HelloFresh

      Interview

      Their recruiter contacted me. The interview process was pretty fast-paced. The initial screening and overall what the role entailed were well explained. Interviews themselves are often one way, where they ask most of the questions. The process takes four steps, excluding the screening, and roughly 5-6 business days between interviews. The hiring manager interview took a bit longer, and the interview itself was fast-paced and one-way. I did get interrupted quite often halfway through my answers. Overall, I did not feel appreciated for the time I had invested in the process. Some questions did not feel professional at all and implied a particular lifestyle.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      - Go over your experience - What would be the story you want to tell when you celebrate your retirement in a pub with your colleagues - Behavioural questions
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      HelloFresh response
      3y
      Thank you for taking the time to write this review. We appreciate it and are sorry to hear we were not able to provide you with the kind of positive experience we want every candidate to have when interviewing with HelloFresh. There are always things we can do to improve and would like to hear more about your case. Please reach out to hf-feedback@hellofresh.com and we will try our best to address the issues you mentioned. Thank you & best regards, MD & Your HelloFresh TA Team

      Interview

      Initial conversation was with an internal recruiter. I was told that normally this follows 4 more technically oriented interviews; two high-level and two code/white-boarding type sessions, though I only did two following the recruiter call. The 2nd technical interview was awful, but more info on that below.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Recruiter call was fairly straightforward, very high level stuff and perfectly pleasant. First technical interview was centred around general technical experience; what sort of technologies do you have experience with? What are you opinions on X, Y or Z technology? And so on. Second technical interview was a code test that would comfortably fit in the easy category on HackerRank, though there were problems with this; more below. HelloFresh has a bit of a wacky way of conducting their technical code tests, expecting the interviewee to take on all of the technical hurdles around sharing code, getting it running and so on. They do not use 3rd party tools like CoderPad, CodeInterview or Hacker Rank, so you're stuck sharing your code in your own IDE and getting it to run. While the first expectation was shared previously, the 2nd was not, which was unexpected and a surprise in the moment. Combining that with an interviewer who seemed somewhat un-engaged, code snippets that were shared through a Google Meet (and not the coding platform, since that wasn't possible), an open question as to whether or not the interview was open book and having the meeting start late. In light of that experience, I decided to withdraw my candidacy, but then the HelloFresh team wanted to chat on the phone and collect feedback and seemingly continue the process. I did hop on a call with them, provided my feedback and was told that they had wanted to continue in light of the feedback, but they could need to connect with the tech team to continue. Alas, a few days later, I was told it would not proceed due to "technical fit" which is a silly way of not addressing what was discussed at all. All in all, it all combined into a horrible experience I would not recommend one enter into unless you feel like you really want to work here and are prepared to cater to largely to their comfort through the process. Speaking of which; if you're interviewing from North America, prepare to have all of your calls fairly early in the morning, since most of their tech team appears to be in Europe.
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      HelloFresh response
      3y
      Thank you for taking the time to write this review. We appreciate it and are sorry to hear we were not able to provide you with the kind of positive experience we want every candidate to have when interviewing with HelloFresh. There are always things we can do to improve and would like to hear more about your case. Please reach out to hf-feedback@hellofresh.com and we will try our best to address the issues you mentioned. Thank you & best regards, Your HelloFresh TA Team

      Staff Engineer Interview

      4 Sept 2024
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Toronto, ON
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at HelloFresh (Toronto, ON) in Apr 2022

      Interview

      Introductory interview then second interview with hiring manager. Then third interview with separate parts, one technical with Engineering Director and one behavioural with another Engineering Director. The technical result was algorithmic as it asked how to iterate through a list and calculate a value.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      How would you secure a system that multiple outside vendors need access to?
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      HelloFresh response
      1y
      Thank you for taking the time to write this review. We are glad to hear that you had the kind of positive experience we want every candidate to have when interviewing at HelloFresh! It is very important to us, so it’s great to get this feedback from you. Thank you & best regards, AG & Your HelloFresh HR Team