Sitemate Full Stack Engineer interview questions

English Version (Glassdoor Review Style) I applied for this role in mid-December and received an email in early January informing me that I had passed the resume screening stage and would be invited to complete an online test. The online test was not LeetCode-style and was more focused on practical problem-solving. The first task involved using Axios to fetch data from a URL and return the result based on specific rules. The second task was a front-end exercise where I needed to sort a list of items based on one of their properties. The second stage also included recording a Loom video, where I was asked to explain one of my projects and how I approached and solved the problems. Both of these stages went smoothly, and I received timely and helpful feedback. The third stage was a technical interview. In the invitation email, I was informed that I would be interviewed by a team member and should have my IDE ready. This stage involved pair programming. I was given a LeetCode-style problem from GitHub, which I needed to clone and solve locally. The problem itself was not very difficult and was relatively simpler compared to the earlier stages. It involved mapping numbers to text. However, I was not able to complete it within the allocated time. After the coding exercise, I was asked some general questions, such as my daily development workflow, an introduction to myself, and details about the team size and structure. Around the day after the third-stage interview, I received an email informing me that I was unsuccessful. I believe this was mainly because I was not able to complete the coding task within the given time.

1) Online application form, asking long questions, 40 minutes; 2) Take-home coding task on HackerRank, 60 minutes; 3) Technical interview, includes 45 minutes live pair-programming and 30 minutes talking; 4) Cultural interview, 30-45 minutes. Looks polished on surface but creates extremely high candidate cost in practice. Early stages are long, time-consuming, and yet automated and non-selective, moving candidates forward without meaningful selection. The actual and opaque filtering happens at the final round which they called cultural interview, they asks things which have been asked and passed already or should've been addressed in the three stages earlier and could have saved so much time for everyone. Let along each steps themselves are hours long, you'd also waste much more time preping in between during the multi weeks of entire process. Seems they like to take advantage of luring an amount of invested applicants more than they need in pool and filtering at last based on internal comparison while keeping transparency tag on the ads. If you value your time and energy, go in knowing the actual selection doesn't happen where the company says it happens.