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      Software Engineer Interview

      Dec 18, 2020
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Denver, CO
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at CarMax (Denver, CO) in Dec 2020

      Interview

      The most unbelievably clustered interview processes I've ever been a part of, and the most colossal waste of time I've ever experienced with any potential employer. 3 months they drug me along with the idea that they'd interview. Calls from internal recruiter about a certain position, then another position, then "I'm not sure if we have a position but a couple hiring managers want to talk to you". I'm told they want to schedule an interview, and I give them some times that work. I wait, and wait, and after hearing nothing I schedule another interview for a time slot I told them was free. Day of, while I'm in another interview, I get an email asking if I'm still attending an interview. Looking back, they sent some spammy email that didn't even look like an interview invite, but it was definitely caught by my spam filter. They didn't even confirm or send a calendar invite expecting a response. I ask to reschedule, and then the recruiter tells me I need to get their application filled out. I go to fill out the application, take the time to give the information they've already had for months, then have to do some assessment. I start the assessment. 50 questions in, and I'm at 48% complete, and have already spent about 30 minutes on it. Based on that I know there's probably 110+ questions. I keep going and this system keeps asking the same questions but just rewording them slightly. Now I'm getting annoyed at the 1 hour mark, but I press on. After almost 100 questions, now I'm at the cognitive assessment part. Some of these questions make no sense and I spent sometimes 5 minutes looking at one, searching for a pattern. At the 2 hour mark I finally finish. Oh, but wait, like an infomercial, there's more. Now they have lots of other extra questions past the assessment, now they want to know if I'm a felon, or if I've been arrested ever, or of I've taken illegal drugs... it just keeps going on and on and on. 2+ hours of this and I finally finish. Wow, interesting challenge, but it felt like a waste of time, and boy was I right. Now comes the day of the interview. I still have absolutely no idea who I'm talking to. I have no idea what the job description is. I have no idea even what languages they're looking for. I just know they're looking for .Net Developers. That's all I ever got. They were never specific about what knowledge the person should have, whether it was front end, full stack, or backend only. Now I'm in this interview and the guy is asking questions that are sometimes way over my head for certain technologies I've never used, mostly specific to giant organizations, microservices, deep Azure knowledge, and so much more. If someone had said to me, "Here's what we're looking for", I could have saved us all some time and let them know beforehand that I'm weak in certain areas or don't know the tech they're looking for. Then we get into tech that I know and now it's clear the tables are turned. I finally know something, Yay! The call ended and I just knew I wasn't what they were looking for. I can't even believe this place gets employees with how awful this process was. Such oddly specific requirements, but without a doubt an unbelievably waste of my time, which I find extremely unprofessional. Do yourself a favor and just steer clear of this place because they really have no idea what's going on when it comes to filtering candidates before interviews.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      If you insert a square peg into a round hole, does it turn the color purple?
      2 Answers
      3

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      Anonymous Interview Candidate
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      Positive experience
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      Application

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      couple of rounds. mostly conversations with engineers and managers. 2 behavioral, 1 technical, 1 technical conversational questions. People were nice. I do feel I was mislead. The interviews went very smoothly and I got great feedback, but ultimately no offer

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      Jan 11, 2022
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