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      Software Engineer Interview

      20 Aug 2019
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Toronto, ON
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at A.K.A. New Media (Toronto, ON) in May 2018

      Interview

      I applied directly, and had a screening call. After this, I had to complete a technical assessment, and this is where it became a complete joke. The assessment was incredibly unclear and didn't specify what language to use, so I picked C# since I was most comfortable with it at the time. The link to the swagger doc didn't work, so I had to use up some of my time waiting for them to respond with the actual link. I was told they weren't progressing because they wanted a front end solution, and I gave them a back end one. I replied to the email telling them that the assessment said I could implement whatever solution I wanted. This was all done through someone in HR, who had to go then talk to the CTO (who seems completely incompetent and doesn't seem at all technical). They decided that since the assessment was unclear, they'd give me an opportunity to redo it. I felt that I'd wasted enough time on them, so declined. Very unprofessional company to deal with as soon as I had to deal with requirements from the CTO. To be fair to the lady in HR, she was very pleasant, and it seemed like she was trying to deal with incompetence from her colleague.
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      Software Engineer Interview

      8 Sept 2022
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at A.K.A. New Media in Mar 2019

      Interview

      HR screening followed by a take-home assignment and an in-person. The take-home instructions were provided as a word document and a mdf file to test against. The mdf would not load without manual changes and even afterward didn't conform to the schema presented in the word document. During the in -person the CTO took me to task for altering the mdf and not implementing some requirements that were not even present in the specification. I indicated to him that the assesment's timeboxing was unrealistic and he dismissed this and my other concerns about it. Seems like an egomaniac. Having spoken to other candidates this is not an anomaly; their hiring process is broken probably because of the CTO.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Why did you fix this broken database file?
      1 Answer