Percolate Interview Questions
Updated Feb 21, 2021
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Anonymous Employee
Accepted Offer
Negative Experience
Easy Interview
Application
InterviewI interviewed at Percolate
Tiresome and frustrating - not clear as to what the roles were at the company and how to add value. A lot of churn and disgruntled employees. Tiresome and frustrating - not clear as to what the roles were at the company and how to add value. A lot of churn and disgruntled employees.
Interview Questions
- sales roles in the past, quota carrying?
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Anonymous Interview Candidate in New York, NY
No Offer
Negative Experience
Application
InterviewI applied online. I interviewed at Percolate (New York, NY)
One day after submitting my application and cover letter to the company's careers site, I received an email from a recruiter saying that they would like to get on a phone call to discuss my fit at the company. For the first phone call, I hadn't heard anything 10 minutes after our scheduled time so I sent the recruiter an email. As a response, she told me that she had just come out of a meeting and asked to reschedule. I understood and rescheduled for another day in the same week. 10 minutes before the second (rescheduled) phone call, the recruiter emailed me saying that she had just gotten back from a "work-related" lunch and needed to reschedule. I acquiesced to her requests once more. The third interview played out similarly to my expectations--30 minutes after the scheduled time, and my recruiter was M.I.A. -- except not even an email (this time) to at least try and justify her actions.
Interview Questions
- Didn't even get to speak with the recruiter!
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Anonymous Employee
Accepted Offer
Positive Experience
Application
InterviewI interviewed at Percolate
I went through the process and it was one of the most smooth and transparent interviews I’ve ever been through. I met with one of the executives and the session was built around the realities of the company which I appreciated very much. I’ve also had a chance to review the health care benefits and I have to say they are very strong in terms of coverage and how much Percolate covers so the premiums aren’t too high especially for a family.
Interview Questions
- Walk me through a scenario in which you had to convince a prospect they had a problem that they were not aware of.
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Anonymous Interview Candidate in New York, NY
No Offer
Positive Experience
Difficult Interview
Application
InterviewI applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Percolate (New York, NY) in Apr 2019
Incredibly professional, gracious folks. Basically, came in via Hired, went through usual HR screen which was a perky marketing call. Then a tech screen as a 45m Zoom call with 1 frontend dev (notably a BootCamp type thus honed on relevant coding) and the Executive Developer who were super gracious as I didn't know the ES6 answers they wanted as the role is actually Senior ES6 Developer to be specific. Could've used the tech stack such detail earlier.
Interview Questions
- ES6 solely, go hard with the pair programming (run as a stricter interview since pair partner was mute) to discuss how you code in ES6.
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Anonymous Interview Candidate
Declined Offer
Neutral Experience
Average Interview
Application
InterviewI applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Percolate in Mar 2019
Q+A, followed by logistics. Interviewer gave plenty of time for answers and for any questions I had. Some of the questions asked included, failures you’ve learned from, adversity’s you’ve had to overcome
Interview Questions
- What do you know about percolate?
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Anonymous Interview Candidate in Denver, CO
Declined Offer
Positive Experience
Average Interview
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InterviewI applied through other source. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Percolate (Denver, CO) in Feb 2019
The entire interview process was one of the most thoughtful interviews I've experienced, from HR, to engineers, and leadership. I first spoke with HR (Lauren) who told me about the company and gave me an overview of the application process (which was spot on). She did a great job communicating and following up with me during the entire application, which looked like: * 1st round - technical screen share with an engineer - My interviewer asked a lot of technical questions that ranged from simple one-line questions to a bit more architectural questions. We used an online IDE for some coding exercises. A lot of us in tech have imposter syndrome and I felt this interview style worked really well to make sure that a candidate doesn't feel discouraged since you'll probably get a few of these answers correct. I really liked the way the interviewer communicated and asked questions. * 2nd round - A couple hours of technical screen sharing w/ different pairs of engineers where we used an online IDE for more technical questions. The engineers were really friendly and I got the feeling they wanted to know how you think and communicate over whether you got an answer 100% correct (because I certainly missed the mark on some of my design decisions). The engineers I had were really empathetic and I hope I get to work with them in the future. * 3rd round - I spoke with (who would have been) my team lead and with engineering leadership (director and CTO). They already thought about the role and what project I'd be working on (again, very thoughtful). They wanted to make sure I was learning something new and growing as an engineer. * They made a great offer, but I ended up declining because I had a similar offer (but with more engineers on-site for my location, which was a huge deciding factor for me).
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Anonymous Interview Candidate in New York, NY
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Negative Experience
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InterviewI applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Percolate (New York, NY) in Dec 2018
By far the worst interview process I've experienced. For one, the onsite lasted only 2.5 hours, with 30 minutes of that time dedicated to getting settled and answering standard HR questions about start date, salary, etc. The two hours that comprised the main portion of the interview included two coding sessions. The first session tested ability to build a straightforward React component, then layered in a question about adding a debounce method. The second coding session was essentially just a test of the candidate's ability to use JS promises in uncommon ways. Short of a complete failure to write basic working code, it seems unlikely that these two tests could possibly yield enough information about a candidate to make a full assessment; especially given the limited scope of the second test. Additionally, three of the four engineers that interviewed me came across as either condescending or uninterested in the interview. One interviewer literally scowled at me with his head tilted to the side for the entire session. Finally, I received a rejection notice within an hour of the interview's end.
Interview Questions
- Build autocomplete functionality in a React component
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Anonymous Interview Candidate in New York, NY
No Offer
Positive Experience
Average Interview
Application
InterviewI applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Percolate (New York, NY) in Jun 2018
Started with a short coding exercise that was not too hard and took a fair amount of time to code up. One 30 minute phone interview, one onsite interview with an hour round of coding and technical questions with two Backend Engineers and a 30 min conversation with the Director of Engineering. Scheduling for the interview was flexible and I received timely responses from the recruiter. Everyone was very friendly and hospitable and I got a good vibe while at Percolate. I admittedly needed more experience and I felt that they gave a very fair evaluation.
Interview Questions
- A round of short Python coding exercises involving basic datatypes. A few questions about databases, OOP and its application to real websites. Know your databases! (SQL especially) Talk with director was about goals and learning more about the candidate and reviewing their resume.
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Anonymous Employee in New York, NY
Accepted Offer
Positive Experience
Average Interview
Application
InterviewI applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Percolate (New York, NY) in Apr 2018
There was one initial phone screen with HR, a follow up take home technical assessment, an onsite set of interviews with four different engineers, and a final interview with the VP of engineering. From the onset I was given an impression of genuine warmth and enthusiasm from every employee I encountered, several of which I informally approached on LinkedIn to ask about their experience at Percolate. The technical assessment definitely reflected the esteem they hold for engineers to operate autonomously. I really appreciated the opportunity to demonstrate my ability to implement a MVP instead of whether or not I'd memorized the bubble sort algo. Discussing my solutions with the other engineers drove home my impression that what they cared about most of all was the integrity of the technology and the wellbeing of their staff.
Interview Questions
- Given a miniature app built in a legacy framework, recreate a functionally identical application in their more current front-end framework.
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Anonymous Interview Candidate in San Francisco, CA
Declined Offer
Positive Experience
Average Interview
Application
InterviewI applied through other source. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Percolate (San Francisco, CA) in Mar 2018
This is the first company I interviewed for that had a very personal interview rather than a cookie cutter one. The first round after speaking to the hr was an algorithm round but I liked that I was first given a small algorithm and then asked to build on top of that that really tested my javascript skills and was totally apt for the role I was applying for. After that was an onsite where I met the engineers I will be working with and some senior engineers. The onsite rounds involved going over my background and a coding session in React. Again this was appropriate for the position I was interviewing for. All the people I spoke to were very friendly and welcoming. Thoroughly enjoyed the process and talking to the team.
Interview Questions
- Javascript algorithm - Build simple react component.
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Percolate Interviews FAQs
Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Percolate as 47.0% positive with a difficulty rating score of 2.76 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Business Development Representative and Backend Engineer rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Manager and Customer Success roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Percolate takes an average of 26 days when considering 93 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Backend Engineer had the quickest hiring process (on average 12 days), whereas Business Development Representative roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 27 days).
Common stages of the interview process at Percolate according to 93 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone Interview: 34.91%
One on One Interview: 23.58%
Presentation: 12.74%
Drug Test: 9.43%
Group Panel Interview: 8.49%
Skills Test: 3.77%
Other: 2.83%
Background Check: 2.36%
IQ Intelligence Test: 1.89%
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