First, there is an initial screen with hr recruiter followed by a 48 hour window where you are asked to take home code assessment that may take up to 2-3 hours. Afterwards they said there's a follow up with a code review and another conversation with the architect. I did not make it pass the code assessment and all I was told was that they would not be proceeding with my application. Software is a craft and if you want to build it from scratch, it takes a little bit more time, especially to flex your architectural design. It felt real shady that they were asking candidates to give up potentially 2-3 or more hours of their time to perform an assessment and not give them the decency of a reason or a code review. Don't waste your time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Just the very basic hr questions, getting to know you.
I applied online. I interviewed at Rad AI in May 2025
Interview
Recruiter -> take home -> code review -> systems design
Take home assessment is to be done in typescript python. You have the option of choosing front end or back end but expect to do a bit of both.
I interviewed at Rad AI (Berkeley, CA) in Nov 2019
Interview
VPE spoke to me for half an hour, heavily inflating the value of the company, team and the product. Take-home assignment that turn out to be a real problem they have been struggling with for a year.
They use interview to extract information from candidates, and they interview even they don't have money to actually hire.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was instructed to complete a take home assignment, using python to interact with a C# library. That was the only question.