I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Stride Health (Salt Lake City, UT) in Dec 2020
Interview
Talked to the recruiter, hiring manager, then software engineers. Software engineer interview was suppose to be a code pairing exercise, but it was more of a show me how you would design this page in our site. Was thrown out of place, since they said to have coding environment set up, and then turned out to be something completely different. Overall wasn’t to impressed with the process.
I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Stride Health (San Francisco, CA) in July 2018
Interview
A recruiter reached out to me on a Friday night through email. Then he sent me another one early Monday since I couldn't get back to him (I was on a vacation over the weekend). I contacted him back, giving him my interest and he said that we will have a few days later. He didn't call on the date schedule so I emailed him again and we set up another meeting. He was late to call on the re-scheduled meeting because he was out having lunch or something and he called me while he was walking back to the office. We chatted for a couple of minutes about my experiences and something distracted him, which was when he said that he would call me back in 5 minutes. Never called me back, I sent him a friendly text message as a last reminder and then gave up.
While there is a chance that I may have offended the recruiter (I can't recall any) in some way, him being late twice, having to reschedule, and ultimately forgetting/ignoring after pinging me twice within a few hours work hours (Friday night - Monday morning) is uncalled for. Of course, one person's attitude does not represent the whole company, I'm sure other interviewees may have a difference experience depending on who they get.
Red flags that seems to me were:
- Unorganized.
Shows lack of guidelines or standards that the recruiters might follow. This is worrisome for the future because this can cause quiet a hectic when you start working.
- Unappreciative of your time.
I left my schedule open for it when I could have been doing something else.
- Unfriendly/rude.
I'd appreciate it if I got some kind of a response back saying I was declined or if the position was filled, not left ignored.
I applied in-person. I interviewed at Stride Health (San Francisco, CA) in Apr 2017
Interview
Interview process was a pretty typical phone screen, followed by on-site technical interview (approx. 4 hours) and on-site followup interview with non-technical team members (also approx. 4 hours). The technical interview was challenging but not ridiculous, focusing on data structure and system design fundamentals over detailed algorithm implementations.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One of the bigger technical questions was to design the backend for a battleship game (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_(game))
We are so glad you hear you had a positive experience with us here at Stride and we appreciate the time and effort you put into the interviews and technical challenges! The team is so fortunate to have you.