Kontagent Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details – Initial phone screen followed by onsite interview and then a second round of onsite interviews. The initial phone screen was a basic personality and culture fit screen; they covered the basic questions regarding experience and employment history. This was followed by an onsite interview. The onsite interview started off with a basic skills aptitude test, which felt like taking the SAT's again, which was "interesting". This was followed by 1:1's where they assessed my personality and skill set. There were overlapping questions, from interviewers.

One thing that I found refreshing was that the Recruiting Coordinator at the time made the experience very personal, calling me to inform me that I was a pass instead of a sending a generic e-mail.

Interview Details – One phone interview with HR, then 3 face-to-face meetings. The first was a marketing event where i met a lot of the team, the second was a interview day with 6 different people, and the final was 1:1 with VP of sales

Interview Details – Completed a phone screen, then went onsite for 2 separate interviews. Interviews were long, because Kontagent wants to make sure you can meet different people in a wide range of positions. Although tiring, I really liked having a longer interview process, as I felt like I got to know a large portion of the company and get a good feel for the culture.

Interview Details – My personal experience with the hiring process was awesome! They were extremely flexible with my availability. I originally applied for the recruiting coordinator position but since I could only work three days a week, they worked it out to where I could be recruiting intern.

The interview process itself was great. Although it was a long interview, it was beneficial to meet more than one person in one day.

Interview Details – I applied online and received an email for a phone interview. The interview was pretty standard. I was asked questions like why Kontagent, about my school projects and internships and finally given a simple coding question and asked to discuss test cases-
1. Given a sorted array, e.g. [1,2,2,3,4,5,5,6,10], out an array after eliminating duplicates.

Interview Details – I was contacted after my university's career fair.
Initial phone screen with recruiter, then two technical phone interviews with a third party company. These were pretty standard questions: OOD, inheritance & polymorphism, factory & singleton patterns, binary search, hash table basics.
Subsequent on-site interviews lasted one full day: Introduction to the product and architecture, 3 technical 1-on-1 interviews and 1 non-technical 1-on-1 interview. My experience with all of the recruiters, interviewers and the entire team was very pleasant.
Technical interview questions included: Design a bounded queue, sort an array in place, and a lot of architectural/design questions tied to prior projects, along with a discussion of performance and process tradeoffs among design choices.
After the interviews, there was a 2 hour coding project: write a program that reads a configuration of chainable filters from a spec file and applies it to a large amount of text. Interview questions and even the coding project were language-agnostic, which is nice and shows that this company is asking the right type of questions (ie, cultural+conceptual rather than encyclopedia questions about language-specific feature xyz). In the end of the day, we got to sit down with and talk to Jeff, Kontagent's CEO and founder, which was great.

Interview Details – The interview process is very rigorous.

Phone Screen with in house recruiter

Phone screen with Sales Director

2 Online Personality Tests (appx 2 hours total)

budget 5-6 hours for the in person portion of the interview
2 presentations (30 mins total)
Group interview and feedback from presentations
Several one on one interviews with various people from around the organization
Flexibility Assessment (which feels like an IQ test)

Once that was complete, they checked references the next day and made me an offer the day after that.

Interview Details – All communications were quick and pleasant. I had an insider recommending me so a phase prior to the on-site was very short. Your mileage may vary.
When I got on-site I was treated with respect and attention. There was no hanging around and waiting on somebody to show up. On-site takes a full day and is packed with one-on-one technical interviews (they will take you to lunch in the middle). A bit heavy process in my view but then at least you know they are thorough. Everybody is cordial and makes you feel welcome (yes, the way it should be but I had seen quite different tackles in the past).
Really nice touch was seeing CEO first thing in the morning.

Interview Details – Be prepared for a long day of interviews. The positive to that is the actual process of first contact to finding out if you get offered the job is short and painless. If you can withstand meeting a handful of personable, intelligent potential colleagues and impress them, you will be on the right path.