I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at StratusGrid
Interview
First interview is with the recruiter, very simple and straightforward. Next is with the hiring manager, the current PM. After that are two panel interviews, one with two people from the dev/engineering side and then with the CEO and COO. I don't think it's typical, but I was also asked to meet one more time with the hiring manager after all that. Each interview was an hour long, except for the very last one, which was about 30 minutes.
Everyone was very nice and the questions were typical for a PM position. I thought I did pretty well and vibed with everyone but I guess it wasn't in the cards.
It was really, really disappointing to get a completely boiler plate rejection email after all those hours of interviewing and (assumingly) making it to the final round of interviews. Not even the position or recruiters name was included in the email, and there was zero mention of thanking me for my time or any sort of empathy. It was 100% the same email that gets sent out to those who don't even make it past the application screen. Really surprising and a huge bummer, considering how prompt and kind everyone had been up until that point.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions were typical for a PM position: how do you handle conflicts, how do you manage risks, how do you handle criticism, what's your PM process like and what tools do you use, etc, etc. One question that threw me but I really liked was "Can you describe a time in which you were told to change or improve a behavior within work and how did you go about it?"
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at StratusGrid in July 2023
Interview
Initial meeting with recruiter, followed by a meeting with the hiring manager, followed by a take home code test, followed by what I assume is follow up interviews based on your take home test. Unfortunately, I wouldn't know that last part. They give you an overly broad and ambiguous take home test. They basically want you to make a full stack webapp, with at least 80% code coverage. I completed this take home test, I did all the required things and even solved all but 1 "bonus" items and yet I received a generic rejection a week and a half later. Do not give these people a second of your time, because they obviously do not value it, if they can have you do a take home test that they say could take as long as 3 days and still send you a generic rejection after you do it, sufficiently might I add.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at StratusGrid
Interview
Screen by HR who asks canned technical questions based on the job description, conversational interview with CTO and team lead, presentation of a small technical task to members of the team the position is for.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe Docker/containers.
Describe a recent technical accomplishment you're proud of.