I applied through other source. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Kubecost (San Francisco, CA)
Interview
This interview process was a waste of my time, details below. 1. Meet for a 30-minute introduction conversation. 2. Take-home coding exercise. The first interview was very relaxed, and I enjoyed it. It was primarily casual technical talk mixed with some culture-fit questions. The next step was a take-home exercise that you should spend around four hours on. The exercise was pretty easy, they wanted me to build a frontend clone of Mastodon. After I submitted my exercise, I never heard back from Kubecost. Ghosting people who spend four hours writing code for you is pretty lame and inexcusable. Do better, or at least send a rejection email.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Kubecost in Sept 2022
Interview
I have never written a review here and have never felt compelled to until I had this interview. The interview started out with basically an intro on their end for about a minute and then I was grilled with questions. It was strange to not really talk about my background and just be peppered with questions since this was the very first interview (and we barely talked about the role and company), but that wasn't why this interview was bad. With about 5 minutes left I was asked if I had any questions. I of course said yes as I had prepared some questions. I asked questions that I would normally ask in an interview and this is where things went bad. The interviewer made me feel like my questions were the dumbest questions she had ever heard. When I asked a question, she said “Well I already answered that in the beginning”. After another question she said “I mean I wrote the job description so whatever I put in there”. Her tone was incredibly condescending and rude. It seemed like a burden that I was asking her anything and that I had chosen dumb questions. I chose to end the interview by not asking any more questions even though I had some, because it was so uncomfortable and I felt stupid. Word of advice: Even if you think my questions are dumb, you are still selling your company to me and you should also just be kind to people you are interviewing even if you know you won’t hire them. On top of this, I was ghosted by this company. I was told they would follow up in about a week after this awful interview but I have still not heard anything over a month later. That’s totally fine because I absolutely would not have chosen to continue on in the process, but it’s extremely rude to ghost people. I hope this one interview is not representative of the company, but unfortunately it was a truly awful experience. Please train your interviewers better and remember that they are selling your company to candidates.