Policy Reporter interview questions

I applied online for a remote QA Team Lead role. The first interview was scheduled about a week later, which already felt slow for an initial screening. At the end of the interview, I was told I would receive an online assessment. It then took around 10 days to actually receive it. I completed the assessment right away. After submission, there was no acknowledgment, no update, and no feedback of any kind. In parallel, the same role was reposted. Long delays between steps and zero communication after the assessment made it clear there was no structured or respectful hiring process in place. This was a poorly managed hiring process with no follow-through. The lack of communication and repeated reposting of the role made the process feel unreliable and not respectful. Advice to the Company: If candidates are being asked to complete interviews and assessments, basic professionalism requires acknowledging submissions and closing the loop. Reposting roles while ignoring active candidates reflects poorly on the hiring process.

First phone screen by contract recruiter (super friendly). Then a take home assignment that you get 2-4 hours to spend. Panel interview was good everyone was professional, and asked a lot of questions that surrounds basic distributed systems. Coding portion, this is where it's very specific. I only studied leetcode style questions, and unless your job already requires you to write pure Python and SQL code, you might be in trouble. So brush up on python file systems, arguments, markdow so on, and SQL brush up on your JOINS UNIONS and so on. I didn't want to waste too much of their time, because at that point I was only able to write the solution out in pseudocode. However the head of engineering was very professional and helpful throughout. Asked a few questions on your submitted assignment. Hopefully this helps the next candidate that they're looking for. I suspect fresh grads will pass the technical easier.