AgVend interview questions

Interview process for a Senior Full Stack Developer role felt poorly designed and not representative of real engineering evaluation. The initial HR call was fine and the technical interview was scheduled immediately after. However, the “technical interview” itself was conducted entirely by the same HR person, who clearly did not have technical background. The whole session was simply screen sharing + coding while being recorded for engineers to review later. No actual engineer was present, no interaction, no discussion, no ability to clarify expectations or discuss trade-offs. There were two tasks: a backend task a frontend task involving filtering and sorting The process felt very transactional: “here’s the task, share your screen, comment while coding”. One example that stood out: during the frontend task, the HR asked me to add more mock data objects because she expected to visually see 10 items instead of 6. That made it pretty obvious there was no technical understanding of what was actually being evaluated. For a Senior-level role, this approach feels fundamentally flawed.

I lost a good amount of the respect and interest I had for AgVend after the needlessly arduous and time consuming interview process. The interview process was unclear from the start. The process involved 7 meetings over the course of 2.5 weeks, followed by a one hour presentation. It's worth nothing that one of the interviewers just forgot about one of the meetings and left my hanging for an hour. I received good feedback about the presentation. A few days later, I was informed via email about the decision to go another direction. No helpful feedback provided other than a "lets stay in touch". What we would stay in touch about is unclear, as I have no idea as to why the did not move forward with my candidacy. For that amount of time to be invested from my side, with nothing but a "thanks but no thanks - you are so great tho!" leaves a sour taste in my mouth that I won't soon forget.