Lengthy and slow process covering several different interviews, but I was failed at the take home challenge. The initial application requires you to write your career path and future vision, which in my opinion, is a good gate keeper. I have these typed in my cover letter template anyway. The take home challenge is building an app using an API the team provided with PHP, HTML, and JavaScript. other than JQuery, you will not be able to use other frameworks. Which is fine. In this current job market where everyone and their non-human companions are laid off, most of us applying for jobs do not have the time, means, or the energy to work on other applications. So I was expecting to write a simple program. But from the feedback I received, what they need is a full fledged application, with a lot of validation, and optimization. This can be done, I'm just a bit busy with all companies asking for the "take home challenges" these days. I was disappointed by their nitpicking feedback when their own test have issues that are more alarming. - Their own API does not follow the specs they. - GET requests are actually POST - Has Errors responses for both email and password mismatch that would cause security issues (easy to find if an account exists and get that account blocked or even bypassed) - Testing the API out will get your IP blocked by Cloudflare which returns an HTML page instead of the JSON API (I was asked for my IP to get it unblocked, privacy issue when I don't even know if I'll even work for them). - The API itself return something completely different or no response at all sometimes for no reason (they fixed it after a day when I mailed them at least). The submission was not well received, they mentioned a few good things, I was disqualified with nitpicks. This is hypocrisy when the things they give to do the job itself is faulty. Sure, nitpick all you want, but I would've been happy if they asked for improvements of the submission instead of the standard good luck next time email. Adding this review here so that I will see this next time and not apply here ever again.

I had read the reviews here on Glassdoor before my first interview so I was aware that they have no concern for people's time and are completely subjective on their evaluations and, alas, that was exactly the case for me. After going through the process I can say with confidence: don't waste your time with them. The process is incredibly subjective and basically leans on the question "what are your life goals and how coding at Expensify can get you there?" They will keep asking the exact same question multiple times and won't be satisfied unless you answer that on your death bed (seriously!) you would be proud to have worked at Expensify. I applied via email as per their website instructions (no resumes etc.) and after a half hour screening interview with the recruiter I was sent their technical challenge description, which is not difficult per se but does require a lot of time to finish properly - easily a whole week of full time work, good luck getting that done if you have a family and a full time job already. Anyhow, I do appreciate the "real world" nature of the challenge but it just takes a lot of time to do it right, so who knows, this might even be by design so that you only hire folks with free time available and thus work extra hours for the company. As others have mentioned in previous reviews here, the process is kind of long but not exactly difficult, just wildly subjective and, frankly, out of touch. I was given high praise for my solution to the technical challenge and my performance on all rounds of the "on-site" interview, but at the end of the day none of that mattered because one of the 3 directors I spoke to did not like me. I am positive that a mother of two, for example, would be immediately disqualified for saying they want a stable, high-paying job to provide for their family. No, they want you to come up with some sort of wicked narrative that when you're on your death bed, the only way to have lived a fulfilled life would be working long hours at Expensify. I kid you not, one of the interviewers basically said this with "softer" language. Avoid at all costs.