I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at AgVend (Moscow, Moskva) in Jun 2026
Interview
The interview process had several issues that affected my overall impression of the company.
The scheduling was handled without asking for my availability — a time was simply assigned with no coordination. During the initial HR call, the role was described as 80% backend and 20% frontend, but in the second interview I was told the split was actually 50/50. That kind of inconsistency in how the role is presented is a red flag for how the company communicates internally.
The technical portion of the second interview included one easy Python problem and one React question — straightforward, but not particularly revealing of depth. More concerning was the HR person's attitude during the process: when I asked clarifying questions, I was dismissively told to "just read the description," which felt condescending and unprofessional.
Overall, the combination of poor scheduling practices, inconsistent role information, and dismissive communication from HR left a negative impression. I would not recommend this company to other candidates.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
process records from a file and output the to another file
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at AgVend in Apr 2026
Interview
Interview process for a Senior Full Stack Developer role felt poorly designed and not representative of real engineering evaluation.
The initial HR call was fine and the technical interview was scheduled immediately after.
However, the “technical interview” itself was conducted entirely by the same HR person, who clearly did not have technical background. The whole session was simply screen sharing + coding while being recorded for engineers to review later. No actual engineer was present, no interaction, no discussion, no ability to clarify expectations or discuss trade-offs.
There were two tasks:
a backend task
a frontend task involving filtering and sorting
The process felt very transactional:
“here’s the task, share your screen, comment while coding”.
One example that stood out: during the frontend task, the HR asked me to add more mock data objects because she expected to visually see 10 items instead of 6. That made it pretty obvious there was no technical understanding of what was actually being evaluated.
For a Senior-level role, this approach feels fundamentally flawed.