I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at WillowTree (Durham, NC) in Jan 2018
Interview
My resume was passed to the recruiter in December 2017. Did a couple of phone interviews and then flew out in January. That was one interesting experience. My flight ended up getting cancelled the night before, and the recruiter was helping me out well into the night getting a flight rescheduled for the morning of the interview.
Got to the airport an hour before and went straight to the office. I toured the office, then had an interview with the recruiter, and then had technical interviews. After it was all done, then went back to the airport and flew back home. It was a crazy day, but a week later, they came back with an offer.
I started a few weeks ago, and feel like I'm at home.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at WillowTree in Jul 2024
Interview
Let me be clear up front: the actual hiring team was one of the most glowing interview experiences I've ever had. The problem is that the *company* made it into one of the most horrific interview experiences I've ever had. Their culture interview raised one of the greenest flags I've ever encountered in an interview -- "what does psychological safety mean to you?" But as much as I can believe the individuals who asked me this, the thing is... when WillowTree says they value psychological safety, WillowTree is lying. Because they have no problem rescinding a job offer if you ask too many questions after reading the fine print.
(On an incredibly related note, Glassdoor needs a 4th option when asking about whether you got one.)
Now that wasn't even the *only* lie. Adding insult to injury, these people had the audacity to then send me *a candidate survey* afterward, with the subject line "we'd love your feedback." Now, I understand that this is automated, but if you're using automation in your processes, you're also responsible for using it better than that. Even in the best case, soliciting feedback, after pulling a job offer on someone for any reason, is comically terrible.
This piece alone alone is easily the most spectacular failure I have encountered interviewing for any job anywhere. There's deserving to get embarrassed by the ways your processes go sideways, and then there's *literally asking for it.*
The first stage was a coding interview, and it was medium difficulty. The last stage was coding a whole project (there is some code and base already there) - it was pretty hard.
It was not a bad process, it went very quickly and the interviewers were very easy to talk to. It’s definitely not as stretched out as long as other processes
