I applied online. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Solace (Ottawa, ON) in Feb 2022
Interview
Actually two rounds of interviews.
First with the manager, It was about you past work experience, knowledge and little bit technical as manager was technical person too.
Second interview was panel interview. It was two hour long. First hour, questions regarding database, multithreading, apis’, java basics, Kubernetes, docker and more. Second hour, live coding ( Not related to data structure). There was three to five interviewers.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
How would you create many to many relationships in database ?
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Solace in Jan 2026
Interview
I found the process disrespectful of my time and energy.
I did not apply but was contacted by a recruiter for an initial screen. They then sent me a take-home coding assignment, which I completed above and beyond the requirements. This represented a significant expenditure of time and energy on my behalf without equal investment of their time, something I've seen with early stage startups (understandably) but not with such an established growth-stage company like this.
I was sent an auto-rejection email from Ashby without any feedback whatsoever.
Don't waste your time!
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Solace (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2025
Interview
Recruiter reached out to me and gave me an introductory interview to feel out if I was a good fit for the company. Sent me an assessment that had a broken docker image. Only had one person review it, and gave no feedback. They had warned they would do thi
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a standard express app with a dockerized postgres, make edits to it to fix common issues.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Solace in Oct 2025
Interview
Extremely bad process - think bottom of the barrel process.
Soulless recruiter will ask to have 30 minutes call on Zoom where he’ll make sure to not smile even once.
Then just hand you a take home project which is nothing but waste of your time.
Their recruiters kept reaching out to me via LinkedIn so I finally decided to respond.
Overall I would never give my time to companies with processes like this so yeah I should have known better
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Overall background and take home project, very unpleasant recruiters.