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Thank you for your feedback. Instrumental takes all reports of prejudice and unprofessionalism very seriously and we have conducted an internal investigation. While the results of our investigation did not produce any information to substantiate these claims, we welcome any further feedback to be shared directly with people-team@instrumental.com.
Regarding the coding assignment, Instrumental strongly believes in building an inclusive interview process. We believe that a work sample is one of the best indicators of performance and we also understand that not all candidates do their best work in a live coding environment. As such, all of our interviews include a module which can be completed asynchronously. Async modules are reviewed by our most senior engineers, all of whom have gone through the same rigorous interview process.
Our product is mission-critical for our customers. Subsequently, Instrumental's engineering team has a high bar for deploying code into our production systems. We know that candidates are busy, so we've tried to design fundamentals-focused assignments that can be finished within 1-2 hours in place of a live coding interview, which many candidates have expressed a preference for. Since these assignments are focused on fundamentals, they are not useful for implementation in Instrumental’s product. Instrumental has never and will never use candidates' coding submissions in our product. If candidates have questions or concerns about this in their interview, there is dedicated time to ask questions or seek clarification.
