I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at AgVend in Apr 2026
Interview
Interview process for a Senior Full Stack Developer role felt poorly designed and not representative of real engineering evaluation.
The initial HR call was fine and the technical interview was scheduled immediately after.
However, the “technical interview” itself was conducted entirely by the same HR person, who clearly did not have technical background. The whole session was simply screen sharing + coding while being recorded for engineers to review later. No actual engineer was present, no interaction, no discussion, no ability to clarify expectations or discuss trade-offs.
There were two tasks:
a backend task
a frontend task involving filtering and sorting
The process felt very transactional:
“here’s the task, share your screen, comment while coding”.
One example that stood out: during the frontend task, the HR asked me to add more mock data objects because she expected to visually see 10 items instead of 6. That made it pretty obvious there was no technical understanding of what was actually being evaluated.
For a Senior-level role, this approach feels fundamentally flawed.
I applied online. I interviewed at AgVend in Feb 2026
Interview
I lost a good amount of the respect and interest I had for AgVend after the needlessly arduous and time consuming interview process.
The interview process was unclear from the start. The process involved 7 meetings over the course of 2.5 weeks, followed by a one hour presentation. It's worth nothing that one of the interviewers just forgot about one of the meetings and left my hanging for an hour.
I received good feedback about the presentation. A few days later, I was informed via email about the decision to go another direction. No helpful feedback provided other than a "lets stay in touch". What we would stay in touch about is unclear, as I have no idea as to why the did not move forward with my candidacy. For that amount of time to be invested from my side, with nothing but a "thanks but no thanks - you are so great tho!" leaves a sour taste in my mouth that I won't soon forget.
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Question 1
They asked me to spend 10+ hours of my time on the interview process but couldn't find the time to make a phone call when the decision did not go my way. Just a form, presumambly AI written email
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at AgVend in Aug 2025
Interview
The process took about 4 weeks. First, there was a short screening call with a recruiter. Then a quick live-coding session with the same recruiter where I was supposed to solve 2 relatively simple problems (1 backend and 1 frontend), the video of the process was captured and sent to their tech staff. Then there was a tech interview with 3 engineers, which started from a general questions about my experience and then included a long series of various practical coding problems (Python, Celery, DB, SQL, React) where I was supposed to identify problems with given pieces of code and resolve them. All the code was written in a shared online editor, with no code completion and no ability to google anything or look up the syntax — so you have to completely rely on your memory to pass, even though that’s not how this work is done in real life. Throughout the entire process, everyone was friendly, and I was able to ask all of my questions.