Bitly Interview Questions

Very disjointed process. The company reached out to me about a position, then scheduled a screening interview 3 weeks out. That interview went well. I was then offered to participate in the next round and asked my availability for the coming week. An interview was scheduled - outside the availability requested - 2 weeks out. Then the interview was cancelled last minute in favor of other candidates. 5 weeks to be cancelled on last minute. This wasn’t fair consideration of my time at several points.

Process took about 3 weeks. Everyone on the panel was professional, friendly, and transparent in answering my questions. The hiring manager was very quick to respond during the offer stage in answering my questions and finding a start date that worked for both of us.

I waited a week for this phone interview which lasted 10 minutes. I prepared and looked up the company and I was barely asked any questions about my experience and how my experience would help in the role. The call ended with thanks you will hear from us within 2 days and then got a rejection email on Saturday. I expected a lot more. It almost felt like it was a pity interview. So disappointed.

I went through the following interview rounds, yet was I was not given an offer.: 1) Spoke with recruiter 2) Spoke with the hiring manager 3) Given a take home assignment, which I completed and apparently passed as I went onto the next round 4) Spent a good portion of my day being interview by 6 people, some of whom would've been on the marketing team I would be part of; some of which are external teams I could or would be working with. 5) Reconnected with the hiring manager After the 5th round, I was reached back out by the recruiter who told me they were going to proceed with other candidates, which was a disappointment. Overall, I feel like Bitly is trying to find candidates who checks off 100% of their requirements check list. There were definitely things I knew I would need to learn about the role and the company. However, there were definitely things I mentioned to the team that they were impressed with--things that would have contributed positively to the team, should they have given me an offer. To me, if someone knows everything for that position, they're overqualified for that job. I thought that for me to pass the take home assignment would've been evident enough that I'm qualified enough to take on the role.

Recruiter was great... super responsive and encouraging. Team was super nice too and had great conversations with all of them. However, I was a bit offput by the complete lack of diversity in the panel. And then one of my interviewers asked me (a diverse candidate) about what it means to value diversity in a workplace... that was a bit awkward.

I applied to the internship and then later scheduled a phone call with the hiring manager. From there, they send a coding challenge, then you meet with the larger team.

There were multiple rounds: I applied via linkedin, which led to a phone screen, values across disciplines, portfolio review with hiring manager, take home without a presentation, which was then reviewed offline to pass to next round.

Very friendly people in all interviews. Questions were fair and thoughtful. I left feeling like they wanted to see my best. The product/management team was extremely intentional about finding people that fit Bitly's culture.

30 minute interview with recruiter. Passing that I was asked to do a take home coding project. The take home project involved create an new REST API endpoint by taking data from a couple of different existing API endpoints. It was a fun but challenging project. They suggested the project would take 3-4 hrs but that time was unrealistic. After passing the coding challenge I had a 30 minute video interview the director of engineering. Most of that interview consisted going over your background and experience. There was an strong desire to understand what if any experience you had designing REST APIs.