If you’re checking Glassdoor because you just got another take-home coding challenge, haven’t talked to a human, don’t know the salary range, and think this might be a Linkedin scam, I’m here to help.
After passing two coding challenges, I pressed to talk to a human. Upon asking about the salary I was told it was “competitive”. Upon further pressing I was given a real number. It was not, in fact, competitive.
I was then given a 3rd take-home coding challenge. I had the correct answer but was cut off for time while finishing the implementation. I was rejected.
All three coding challenges are essentially identical — Python algorithm questions. The difficulty mostly comes from working in their editor without error highlighting, proper completions, control over the terminal, or auto-save.
My advice is to not go further until you’ve talked to a human. Be sure to ask about their “rigorous” interview process and “competitive” salary to understand what you’re getting into. If a small startup isn’t transparent with its interview process or salary, is that really where a strong engineer would go?
