I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Podium (Lehi, UT) in Sep 2018
Interview
The process was quick and smooth. I was given a timed take-home test that involved multiple choice and coding questions. Once I completed that, I had a phone call with one of the team leads which covered mostly experience and a review of the code challenge. Then I was given another take-home project that involved creating 2 separate applications (one front end and one backend), which I then had to present in a series of back-to-back onsite interviews with the majority of engineering leadership. A day later I was contacted by the CTO who asked a few final questions and then made an offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Code challenges involving optimization, data structure, and algorithm based questions
- An assessment to test both front and backend skills
- One whiteboard question in the onsite
- A bunch of behavioral and experience related questions
First interviewer was Director level and they had clearly not read my resume prior to the interview. They thought I had a different background than was on my resume.
Second interviewer was clearly prejudiced towards my cultural background. They also did not know for which position or group I was interviewing for.
The company expected me to spend several hours preparing yet they did not prepare at all.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe the results of a timed exercise that was done just before the interview.
I applied online. I interviewed at Podium (Lehi, UT) in Oct 2025
Interview
Had a technical - 15 minutes behavioral questions, 30 minute coding (3 question, 1 on reading / modifying JSON files, 1 on a simple messaging backend, 1 on REST apis), and 10 minutes for questions at the end.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
3 questions, 1 on reading / modifying JSON files, 1 on a simple messaging backend, 1 on REST apis. Was able to use AI assistants on the last question.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Podium (Lehi, UT) in Mar 2023
Interview
First call with recruiter/hiring manager, then assuming that goes well you go to the first round. First round was a system design which was right out of the early 2000s and something that may sound simple, but was more complicated due to the lack of information.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
System design question had 2 boxes with a database in the center. The arrows between the 3 all pointed right, implying [App] -> [DB] -> [3rd] party service was how this system was supposed to work. The assumed ask was for an application to write to a DB, describe how the database would make a call to a 3rd party service to get a UUID and Body. It was made clear you have no control over [App] which writes to the database, only the database and whatever service would call the 3rd party service.
