I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Clipboard in Feb 2025
Interview
Like others have mentioned, very questionable experience. Recruiter at Clipboard reached out to me on LinkedIn. After sending my resume and scheduling time he mentioned I would actually be talking to someone else but later said he was looking forward to speaking with me himself.
The talk with the recruiter was totally one-sided, basically explaining the company and majorly emphasizing how everything they do is as async as possible. At the end I asked if there was anything she wanted to know about me or my background, but there wasn't. At no point did my past experience or motivations come up, which was odd for an initial screen. At times it was hard to tell if it was a real person I was even talking to.
The next step was to submit a code review on a basic node/typescript API. One of the tips for success in the instructions was "you should come to this assessment with the mindset that the level of work that you may have done in the past or typically think of as acceptable may not meet our bar here", so that was a bit of a red flag. The whole thing took a few hours over one night. I left several comments on the PR with suggestions or required changes along with justifications, including business logic specific feedback.
After 3 days I emailed the recruiter for an update and the next day got a generic automated rejection from a third person.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You are the Engineering Manager for the team that owns the backend service responsible for worker shift management. Your team is working on adding a new feature to your existing, in-use, production apps which will allow healthcare facilities to rate the job performed by the workers of the facility's shifts. Your task is to review the PR submitted by a member of your team to implement new feature requirements below, and provide them with concise, specific, and actionable comments, including a top-level comment with your general assessment of their work (e.g. approve the submission, recommend or request changes, etc.).
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Clipboard in Apr 2025
Interview
Did the recruiter call and then was sent a PR review assessment. Like all the other reviews for this position, I didn't get past the PR review and was sent a rejection email from the recruiter with the exact message another person posted here.
I wonder what exactly they're looking for cause it seems like no one has been able to get past that first stage. I called out the 2 missed requirements of the rating value range and not blocking workers from applying to shifts. Existing endpoints broken due to the changes. New endpoint added was also broken. Returning 500s when it shouldn't. Incorrect HTTP method used. OpenAPI docs not reflecting what was actually implemented. Blocked and requested changes on the PR due to how many things were wrong with it. Looking back, I think where I went wrong was not spelling out what exactly should change with code examples, i.e. instead of just saying they need to add validation to the rating field, write out the code for them and point out exactly where to add it.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Clipboard in Feb 2025
Interview
Had an initial call with the recruiter who was really good at explaining the company culture and next steps. Was sent a PR to review but was told through via the recruiter I would get an opportunity to discuss my PR review with a team member after submission. The PR I was reviewing was overly simplistic and was instructed to give feedback that could be actionable. Never got any feedback just a generic rejection message a few days after submission.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: Review a PR with a basic REST API for rating and blocking workers for a healthcare facility.