I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Speechify in Aug 2023
Interview
It took me almost 3 months to go through all the interviews and I got rejected with no valuable feedback eventually. Before each interview, I was asked about a suitable date/time for me and it was always ignored and scheduled for some other time. Overall this is the most unprofessional hiring process I've ever had.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. parse some xml and create playback with their speech engine 2. design system questions 3. compare two node trees with some additional tasks like making them equal and updating as few as possible nodes
Almost everyone will have an online assessment, in my case not DSA, but a repo for you to do some refactoring and add some functionalities. Camera, microphone must be turned on. No human join the interview with you. You have to complete the requirement in 60 minutes and push to the designated gitHub repo.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a repository, do some refactoring, add some functionalities in 60 minutes
I applied online. I interviewed at Speechify in May 2026
Interview
I applied for the job and received an automated email one minute later with a technical challenge using AI.
They provided a large repository for download and asked me to keep my webcam and screen recording active for 90 minutes (probably for training AI models).
They didn't provide any tools. You had to use your own tokens for the tests for 90 minutes without knowing if anyone was going to see them. Basically, that's what happened to everyone who left a review here.
I understand and like pair programming with AI, but doing it this way is impersonal, probably the worst way, and zero privacy-oriented. You never get feedback. It's one of the worst things I've seen this year.
I interviewed at Speechify (Cairo, Cairo Governorate)
Interview
Weird and invading my privacy, was good in general but not smooth and didn’t feel good while doing it, they should respect candidates privacy, it’s very disrespectful interview , first project was screen recorded all the time even when entering my git password