GoFundMe interview questions

Initially there was a phone screen, then an onsite and after that another video interview. The entire process was organized by most unprofessional people ever. The CTO called me up 20 minutes late for a 30 minute interview. After that the conversation lasted for about 15 minutes. After that they first scheduled an onsite interview with PHP guys and I am a Java Developer. However a day before the interview they realized that, and rescheduled the interview for next week with their Java team which apparently don't use Java. After that was called for the onsite round. There were 5 rounds of interview. Was asked plain and simple array based questions and OOP concepts. All were easy. One of the rounds were conducted by two very naive interviewers who worked on KAFKA but had no idea what ZooKeeper was (which was really odd). They thought that a hash function can produce different hashes for same string(showed their inexperience). Also argued with me that Java Garbage Collector collects live connection objects if it is not used and even if it is not timed out. Asked a simple question on URL shortener but had no idea on how to design scalable enterprise level complex systems. After talking to 9 people so far, they again scheduled another interview with another team head next week. I was like, seriously? 10 people including the CTO cannot decide whether to hire a candidate or not? However I don't know what went wrong in that last interview as I was not hired after that. The last round was again the same behavioral questions that was asked during the onsite interview. Overall the interview process was bad, and most of the interviewers were inexperienced themselves. Like some of them did not even know what technologies my supposed team was working on. After the onsite interview as I was leaving the premises, I asked one of the interviewers on how they felt about working there. He took a long and deep breath and said "It is OK".

I applied for this role on LinkedIn. I got an email 21 days later from someone in HR (I thought I didn't get it at that point) asking me to complete a written assessment (questions below). After completing the assessment, another 12 days pass and I don't hear back so I send a follow-up email. I get an email back telling me I made it through to the next round which was a phone screening with HR. This was a very pleasant conversation over Google Hangouts (HR is in San Diego) and lasted around 30 mins. Questions were pretty straight forward, mainly asking me about my background and a few behavioural questions too (a time I went above and beyond, why GoFundMe, etc). About two days later I found out that I got through to the next round, which was an onsite with the Dublin team the following week. The onsite was super interesting. I met with the team leader and she showed me a tour of the Dublin office. She then had me shadow one of the Customer Happiness Agents for about 15 minutes; you take this time to ask as many questions as possible. I found this a little odd, as this is something you typically do once you have the job. Following that, the team leader brought me into a room, along with a Senior Customer Happiness Agent. Before the interview started, they gave me a written assessment in Spanish as I was going for the bilingual role. It was just one question 'Describe GoFundMe to a friend' (in Spanish in my case). After that, the interview followed. It was pretty straight forward, with the team leader asking me about my background and behavioural questions, and the Senior Customer person asking me about me as a person. They are such a small and close family in the Dublin office that they want to make sure they hire the right person. She also talked to me about the company culture. The final part of the day was a chat with one of the Spanish workers in the office. The onsite lasted around 1 hour and a half. The whole day was very fun and didn't feel like an interview at all. I left feeling very positive and also very confident that I got the job. However, I received an email the following week from HR telling me that I didn't get the job. Honestly, I was really disappointed as I was sure I had it. I think what happened is the team made me feel so at ease and at home in the office, that I probably let my guard down a bit, so this is something to note! Overall, my experience was positive with GoFundMe and the hiring process was interesting, albeit a bit drawn out and sometimes a little too positive, because they make you feel like you're already part of the company, and then let you down.