Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Upwind with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 43% positive. To compare, the company-average is 34.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 18 days to get hired, when considering 7 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Upwind overall takes an average of 19 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Upwind as a Software Engineer according to 7 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 40%
Skills test: 40%
One on one interview: 20%
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I interviewed at Upwind (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
Interview
Fairly arbitrary, depends entirely on the interviewer with practically no consistency between them.
A screening interview that is mostly about what you want to work on;
A technical interview that is 50% CV walkthrough and 50% system design of a cloud based scanning tool. This is looking for very specific skills that are not well aligned to the work that will be done.
“Upwinded” (verb): when a company offers you a job, then proceeds to ghost you afterward
My friends and family actually started using the term after my experience here. Apart from that, everyone I spoke with throughout the process was genuinely pleasant, nice, and easy to talk to. Good luck if you’re interviewing here, and I wish you a better experience.
The first technical interview included two Leetcode questions about arrays (one of them was the Anagram question), a question about React hooks, and also a question about the JavaScript language