Appian Interview Questions

Application

I applied online. I interviewed at Appian (Reston, VA).

Interview

Series of half-dozen interviews. They all talked mostly about themselves and about their "company culture" and IPO (though public records indicate losing boatloads of money every month and quarter). Everybody was polite and professional. The younger entry level folks seemed like robotic members of a cult of interchangeable true-believers (to borrow from HBO show Silicon Valley, "...making the world a better place!"). Only one of the experienced interviewers seemed to value experience and perspective different from his own. My impression is that Appian is just another roller-coaster ride, self-referential tech firm that chews people up, spits out people who aren't clones of existing staff, and holds onto people who live to work instead of work to live. I didn't see a single person of color in the office, and all the women were in (cliche alert!) HR. Office space was generic uninspired dense cubicle farm and an unusually warm climate (some folks had individual fans blowing on them at their own desks) because the firm has a high status top-floor in a building with a lot of exposure to sunlight through a lot of glass floor-to-ceiling windows. As far as the work goes, just doesn't seem like a compelling opportunity unless you are a blank slate entry-level person who would get impressive-sounding CV entries from a stint at a publicly traded company.

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Application

I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Appian.

Interview

Applied through campus recruiting. Interviewing was straightforward. I had a vague interest in the company and was asked to interview after speaking with them through my college. They could see through my interview that I had little interest in software and technology.

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Application

I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Appian in December 2014.

Interview

There were 1 or two initial phone interviews, followed by roughly 6 in-person interviews (including one with the CEO/Founder). The interviews were somewhat laid back and non-technical, but there was an atmosphere of intensity about the job itself. Everyone at the company is invested in the work that they do.

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Application

I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Appian.

Interview

First interview was on campus. Short, ~30 min, all behavioral.
Then I was invited on site for an interview day. The day went from noon - 6:30PM.
They started with a presentation from their CEO which was nice. He's a really interesting guy.
Then they did a presentation about their software.
After that was four interviews, pretty much all behavioral.
The first was with the CEO, which was pretty intense. Questions weren't hard, just strange.
Second through fourth were all 30 minute behavioral interviews with different employees. They all felt pretty much the same and it didn't seem like they needed all three.
Day ended with a really nice dinner at a nearby restaurant.

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Application

I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Appian (Reston, VA) in October 2015.

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After talking to Appian representatives at my university's business career fair, I was invited to an on-campus interview after the fair. It was a pretty standard one-on-one 30 minute behavioral interview. In the following week I was invited to the headquarters in Reston for a more intense interview process. The other candidates and I met the CEO and listened to a brief presentation about the company, and then participated in five 30-minute interviews with five different representatives. There was no case study, and the questions were mostly behavioral/personal and relatively straightforward.

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Application

I applied online. The process took 4+ weeks. I interviewed at Appian.

Interview

The process took about a month. First got contacted by HR and had a phone interview with them. Then had a phone interview with the Director of IT a few days later. The third interview was then on site. This is where it got weird...when I got there I met with two IT engineers, they asked a few behavioral questions and technical questions. The first guy seemed very nervous to be talking to me and didn't seem to be very interested. The third person was the director of IT again. Everything was going well then when I finished with him I had to go down to meet with a VP, but then was told that I would need to come back because he had a sudden "work emergency"(I was also supposed to meet with a few more people after that), which I totally understand.

However, HR told me they would contact me the same week (it was a Monday) and they never did. The following week they sent a email saying they were not interested. I think it was very poor how they conducted the whole final phase of the interview.

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Application

I applied through college or university. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Appian.

Interview

Contacted through on campus recruiting. Scheduled a phone interview for the week after. Around 45 minutes in length. Stepped over resume for the first 15 minutes or so before going into a technical question. Not very difficult or tricky, basic algorithms and data structures. Make sure you know how to talk about the different points on your resume and have reviewed how to code in your language of choice (java or c++ normally).

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Application

I applied online. The process took 4+ weeks. I interviewed at Appian.

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Process took around a month -- applied online. Had typical phone screen, then two more rounds of phone interviews. First one was very logic heavy, and second was coding online

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Negotiation

Offered very high wages for intern!

Application

I applied through college or university. The process took 4+ weeks. I interviewed at Appian.

Interview

I got interviewed by two people face-to-face at my campus first:
- They asked questions about my resume
- They asked questions about my interests in software engineering
- They asked algorithm questions that were not too hard, actually (compared to Google, for example).

Then I got interviewed one more time over something similar to skype, but that technical interview was bad because the tool did not allow for program writing and he asked me to describe an algorithm.

Got a final call from someone high in the exec level.

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Application

I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Appian (Reston, VA) in September 2013.

Interview

They go trough your resume and ask you to talk about your past projects and experiences. be prepared to write a lot of code on the black board.Also the ask a lot of technical questions such as the difference between Java and C, difference between linked list and arrays

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