I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at GridX in Aug 2024
Interview
30 minute intro call + 4 rounds of technical interviews - systems design and some live coding.
I only got to the first technical round. Interviewer wasn't at all familiar with my resume and didn't want to hear about my experience.
I briefly described the platform I worked on, and he spent the rest of the time asking me questions about infrastructure and security choices which were not within the scope of my backend team. I explained my understanding of those decisions but couldn't speak to why that team made them, as I was not part of those conversations and was involved entirely in feature design and building out the microservices architecture from a monolith.
I tried directing the conversation back to my experience and projects, unsuccessfully.
We reached the end and I never had a chance to talk about any of my accomplishments or areas of expertise.
I did at least hear back from them a couple weeks later, but was not surprised nor disappointed that they didn't want to move forward.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why did you use Nginx rather than calling services directly?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at GridX in Dec 2022
Interview
Three interviews went seemingly pretty well over about a month, process was good. Then I was simply ghosted by hiring manager for 4 months. When I inquired, an apology followed along with a request for another interview. I immediately replied and...ghosted once again. That ruined them for me- a lack of professional courtesy.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell us about your experience in utility rates and time of use concepts.
Thank you for your feedback. I'm sorry to hear you did not have a great interview experience back in 2022. We are committed to having positive candidate experiences and have improved our recruiting processes in the past 18 months. We wish you the best in your current endeavors!
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at GridX (New York, NY) in Nov 2023
Interview
first I had a 30 minute recruiter call, and 1-hour technical interview with the director of DS.
I didn't pass the technical interview. the next interviews should have been: take home assignment, interview with team, interview with a product person
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe one time when you had a conflict or difficulty with someone you worked with, what happen, how did you solve it, what did you learn from it? What yo do if a model in deployment has different results than training set, explain step-by-step.