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      Junior Front End Engineer Interview

      9 Jan 2020
      Anonymous interview candidate
      New York, NY
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Rose Digital (New York, NY) in Jan 2020

      Interview

      I’ve never had a more unprofessional interview experience, I should have heeded the reviews. After an initial phone screen with the owner/CEO of the company, Evan Rose, I was invited to participate in a 2 1/2 hour long technical interview with an engineer from their team. We did some pair coding and built a React app. I received an email inviting me to their office for an on-site. Due to the holidays we scheduled for a couple weeks later. Since some time had passed, I emailed Evan to confirm and ask if there was anything I should bring and who I’d be meeting with. He told me to put together some boilerplate code for a React/Redux app and bring my laptop. He didn’t tell me who I would be meeting with. I put together some boilerplate code that evening. I am mentioning this because it didn’t end up being used in the interview. This was a little irritating but I understand formats/plans change. However, in hindsight it seems this was more due to poor planning on their part, because this interview was a mess. When I arrived I was invited into a conference room with the engineer who had conducted my tech interview. He was pleasant, we chatted a bit and went through some tech questions. After a little over an hour the owner, Evan, came in. He didn’t introduce himself and seemed like he didn't want to be there or was disinterested. They invited another member of their team to participate via video conference and were going to go do some coding. I asked to use the restroom before we jumped in. When I returned the owner said “we’re going to shift gears”. He asked me to sign into the video conference, which was odd since the person they had conferenced in could already see me. I spent some time getting signed in, then he sent me a link to a demo Trello board and asked me to share my screen. This also turned out to be pointless since he didn't actually want me to do any coding on my laptop. He asked me to show him on the whiteboard how I would set up an app that was a clone of Trello. The only instruction he gave me was "show me how you would structure this". In hindsight, I should have asked for clarification. I started to draw. He immediately interrupted to tell me that I didn't need to use brackets. I erased the brackets and continued. He interrupted again and said "you don't need to show the app”. I erased again. He said the same thing when I started to draw out a box showing the main nav. It went on like this for about 5 excruciating minutes. If he didn't like what I was doing or thought I was doing something wrong he would say "uh oh..." but give no info. It was very unclear to me what he was looking for me to demonstrate, so I just drew out how I would structure the components of the app in a tree, using boxes to represent them. Before I could get any further he took the marker from me and told me "You're too junior. My engineers need to know how to do this." The other engineers looked very uncomfortable. He then asked me if I would like to "take the opportunity to learn something." I remained friendly and told him "sure, I'll always take an opportunity to learn." even though I wanted nothing more than to leave quickly. He then started to explain to me that information should be pulled from a database using an API. This was not something he had asked about and was something I already demonstrated I knew how to do in the technical interview. But anyone who has built a basic CRUD app knows that, there was no reason for him to assume that I wouldn't do this. I very nicely explained that I have built apps that utilize apis. I said maybe I’d misunderstood what he was asking. He seemed irritated that I was correcting him and replied "Okay. Well, do you have any questions for us?" I asked if there was anything else they would like me to demonstrate. The owner said “No, I’m good.” and asked the other two engineers "do you guys have any questions?" They looked uncomfortable and told him they didn't, because how else could they respond? At this point I thanked them, closed my laptop and went to get my jacket and bag, which I had left at the front door. As I was putting my laptop into my bag and putting my jacket on the owner came out of the conference room, walked over to me, shook my hand and told me "It was nice to meet you, sorry this didn't work out." This was in front of the other engineers currently working in the office. Aside the completely unprofessional behavior of stopping the interview to tell me I'm too junior for the JUNIOR position I applied for, this owner obviously doesn't trust the engineers that work for him enough to even consult them when making decisions. He seems very controlling and untrusting of his employees. I'm not sure what made Evan decide that he didn't want to hire me but I'm glad he acted the way he did and let me know I was dodging a bullet by not getting hired to work under this incredibly narcissistic and controlling individual. Echoing the other reviews...RUN AWAY!

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Build a simple React app, remove an item from an array, write function to count possible chess knight moves
      Answer question
      9
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      Rose Digital response
      6y
      This is pretty rough to read because it doesn't reflect the team's perception of the interview and my own either. Reading your review, I can see that this was a very painful experience for you and that is not at all how I or anyone here wants the interview process to be even for interviews that don't go well. I was called in to switch gears because none of the questions up until that point were completed successfully and the team did not know how to proceed. The Trello exercise is not generally a part of our interviews but I introduced it because I wanted to see if we could start from first principles of how you break down a task, ask questions to define requirements and then tackle a common workflow we deal with -- taking a design and figuring out how to organize the UI components necessary to build it. Sometimes interviews get caught in a rut and it seems like this is the case because this exercise also did not ultimately go well. Perhaps where this might have gone wrong is when I tried to nudge you towards the right answer because I appreciated getting hints when I hit a wall in interviews. It is clear that this was not well received and I will definitely not be doing that in future junior interviews to avoid anyone feeling like it was controlling. I tried to explain what we were looking for at the end of the interview because that is what I would have appreciated but it seems that this too was not the right move. Overall, I am sorry that you had a negative experience interviewing here. As I mentioned, that is absolutely not what we want. We want a challenging, fun experience that stretches your capabilities and is an accurate reflection of the type of work that we do here on a day to day basis. Based on the feedback from this as well as positive interview experiences we are redesigning our interview process and I hope that it will better showcase candidates' interests, skills and general awesomeness.

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