TL;DR I wish I had never even scheduled it. This team is a joke. I called back after my first interview and declined the second.
For about a year or so of working in the tech startup scene in Salt Lake I had heard a lot of chatter about MoneyDesktop. The chatter was always usually surrounding their developers and it was always positive. In late 2013 I was a student in a coding school that MoneyDesktop visited one Saturday. They brought around 10 developers and the "VP" of engineering - although unofficially they don't believe in titles they said. They seemed cool, confident, and building interesting things. The visit was all I needed to decide I'd like to interview there.
Fast forward two months and I'm walking in to a conference room with two team leads. What followed was one of the worst interview experiences I have ever had in my life. To put it simply - it seemed like these guys had rolled out of bed and remembered they had an interview and just began pulling questions out of their a$$. There didn't seem to be much flow to it. When I'd respond to a behavioral question such as "what do you like to work on" I would receive a stern look as if I needed to continue after already having spoken for around 2-3 minutes. I'm not a professional politician but I can handle myself in an interview.
After a half hour of this another hipster team lead walked in and began asking the same questions again in an even more painful way. After another 20 minutes we broke for lunch and sat and ate in their "developer cave". SPOILER ALERT: they love nerf guns and anything that comes up under a search for "cool sh#t" on Amazon.
No one made an effort to talk to me or explain some of the soft points of the company. There was a lunch presentation then my two interviewers walked up to me and asked if I wanted to go on a walk. We went out to the sidewalk that runs through the Riverwoods and listened to hipster #2 talk about his housing situation in Utah Valley. At this point I was day dreaming of taking a "bathroom break" and slipping out to my car to drive as fast as possible away from that building.
We made it back to the building though and at the front desk hipster #2 said that I could talk to so-and-so the recruiter about "numbers and figures." For a moment I wondered if I had missed an offer in the delirium that was the last hour and a half - then I remembered who I was dealing with. I asked for a confirmation about what he was talking about and he said "oh well I mean I liked talking to you so so-and-so will talk about compensation if you make it through another interview."
So I talked to their technical recruiter who was actually pretty cool and told her I had an offer somewhere else but I wanted to see what MoneyDesktop offered. She asked for details on my offer and then said she'd call for the next interview.
If any of the last three or four paragraphs are any indication of my views on MoneyDesktop it should come as no surprise I called the recruiter back the next day and told her that I wouldn't like the second interview.
