SendGrid Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details – First recruiter called and after introduction interview over phone, he said that he like to arrange an on site interview for me.
I went to Anaheim office and there two employee interviewed me.
First interview was very general questions of do you know this do you know that plus one simple programming question which i needed to write on the board (binary search on an array).
Second was another simple programming question on the board plus an database design with ER diagrams.
The feedback process is slow. although they told me that they will inform me in 2 days, it took them 10 days to tell me about decision and took me 3 emails asking "did you make your decision?" and geting the reply "sorry it will be finalize within 2 days" every time

Interview Details – First had a half hour phone screen, very basic stuff running through my resume and a couple behavioral questions. Followed a week later by a 15 minute skype call, similar things. Came in for in person interviews. Had 6 half hour interviews in a row. Questions were mostly behavioral and culture fit questions, really nothing technical.

Interview Details – the feedback of the interview process is slow.
Interview started with walking through resume. OO terminologies. then a coding problem on collabedit. I solved it and gave a production code in the first attempt without any hint. I was asked to improve the solution. I improved it and then again gave a production code. The interviewer was satisfied. Still i got rejected.

Interview Details – Had two phone interviews, one with company recruiter and one with a developer. Both seemed to go okay. In the developer interview I had coded with collabedit. Then I was given a relatively complex coding assignment and was asked to return it in one or two days. I did that at a large amount of inconvenience. Didn't hear back for two weeks and then was given a generated email rejection.

Interview Details – Went through the HR screening process and was later scheduled to have a technical interview with one of their senior software engineers. The technical interview went over generic questions about design patterns like "what is polymorphism", etc. and later went on to use a collaborative text editor only to be asked to implement a binary search method. The description of the position listed PHP as the primary language and made no mention of any language were you would ever need to [re-]implement something like this, thus I ended the interview. Forming this same question as a pre-interview exercise would have been much more appropriate. I would never take a position where I had to solve difficult problems that require concentration while having someone breathing down my neck, and for the same reason I would never take a position that screens employees utilizing this setting.

There is an unlimited list of programming concepts that one needs to selectively navigate depending on the requirements of the specific role or craft you want to work in/with. Asking questions that do not apply to that role during an interview is poor form. Test the knowledge and experience relative to the role instead of just trying to test what a candidate doesn't know (you'll pass up on plenty of great programmers). I've worked with plenty of people in the past that were better at reading technical articles and explaining design patterns while not knowing when and when not to apply them, much less being able to get work done in a reasonable time-frame.

Interview Details – Recommend in through a trusted connection. Phone interview w/ CFO to learn more about the role. Met VP Sales, CFO and CEO all in one day. Decision to hire came within 1 week. Overall a great process.

Negotiation Details – Easy and collaborative, a win/win

Interview Details – I was interviewing for their Anaheim Location in California. It was a long, but a relatively easy series of interviews. Beware though the Co-Founder makes the final decision even if you get along great with the team and are very technically skilled--you may still not get the job. Please read my experience below!

I was initially contacted by a recruiter, after submitting my resume, who asked me questions based on past experiences and typical HR questions. I was then scheduled for a technical phone interview with one of their web architects. The technical phone interview questions mainly focused on algorithm type questions (find unique values in array, etc.). After successfully completing the phone interview, I was then scheduled for an on site interview where I met with them team i was going to presumably work with and one of the co-founders.

I first met with two members of the group, separately, where they asked a few technical questions (showed me PHP code and asked what it did), but they focused more in telling me about the group and making sure I would be a fit for their group. We got along great and I'm sure they would have agreed with me that I would have been able to fit in perfectly.

I then finally met with one of their co-founders who asked me how a Hash Table is implemented and explained a little bit about the company's history. Afterwards I asked many questions about the business and then we got into the discussion of how I would fit in. He told me he was going to have me come in for one final interview to be considered for a position as a Release Engineer (which made no sense since I thought I was already being considered for a position with the group i just interviewed with). Ultimately he said that I would be considered for the other position as well. And right before I left he said that he has received really good feed back from the rest of the team and that I would be contacted for a final interview.

A few days later, after waiting for my next interview to be set up, I got an email stating i was being rejected......How does somebody ask you to come for a final interview only to cancel on you and reject you later. Supposedly he said after thinking about it more he thought that I wouldn't have been a "good fit", even though I got along great with the team. My Technical skills also weren't the issue since he said that I was very intelligent and my motivation was impressive.

Its sad because everything was going so well and I really liked the team there!!. Would have loved to work at SendGrid, but ultimately their Co-Founder thought differently. Oh well his LOST!!!!! :)