Collage.com interview questions

The overall experience was fairly off-putting. I read through all of these reviews prior to applying and I decided to go forward with it, anyway; genuinely curious. I thought there might be some more underlying part of the interview process that other candidates weren't seeing. Either I found out this wasn't the case or I was just way off the charts from what they were looking for, personality-wise. When the internal recruiter scheduled our first interview, a technical glitch was blamed for us not connecting over Google Meet. I thought nothing of it other than figuring I had connected improperly the first time and thought I set a bad first impression. We rescheduled for two days later (both times I had to take time off from work to accommodate) and was dialed into the call about 5 minutes early. The recruiter still connected a couple minutes late. Sort of a red flag. We talked a lot about the company and they threw some personality questions at me, which I expected. The conversation seemed to go well. We even concluded the call with them saying that I would "definitely" hear back on something the following business day. This never happened. I waited a few more business days before following up to try to accommodate for any expected schedules I needed to plan ahead for any coding assessments, etc. Nothing. Collage.com - seriously, based on the previous reviews: you need to stop doing this to candidates. I've read the responses about how you're a start-up and how you take these reviews seriously, but if I were a owner, I'd be seriously concerned with how you're zipping through these interview processes. Based on the aforementioned, I suspect I was ditched on the first meeting time when I waited on the call for 7 minutes with no follow-up. I emailed you and got a response that Google Meet must have made a mistake. So, I'm honestly not buying it. For everyone's sake at Collage.com, either refine your interview process and/or get your recruitement team some help so they're not in a position to make some tough choices on what I believe to be covering for an overloaded schedule. Also - don't ghost your candidates. Or you'll keep getting an overall bad score on GlassDoor.com In all sincerity - good luck getting a handle on your growth you seem to be struggling with.

I first had a 30 minute call with their head of talent acquisition to discuss the position, my current role and experience. The conversation was great and made me excited to proceed to the next round. The second step was a 60 minute live coding session with one of their lead engineers. He gave me a relatively simple task (with a few very minor twists), but between being nervous and rusty, I just choked and only completed about 75% of the task. Regardless, he was very kind throughout and the experience was positive. I get the feeling that as a small startup, they're very selective about who they bring on. I can tell they'd be a great company to work for. Given my performance during the second round, they were right not to proceed with me, but at no point did they make me feel bad about it.