I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at mGage (London, England) in Apr 2017
Interview
At first, had an interview with the hiring manager who was friendly and evaluated key skills. The company was well recognised and going through good growth at the time. I also met with the General Manager who was very inviting.
I applied online. I interviewed at mGage in Feb 2021
Interview
The process was take two to three weeks and to include four interviews with various members of the company. I participated in the four interviews and they seem to have gone dark: two months later I have yet to hear back from anyone at the company.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How much hands on experience did I have with the product?
I applied in-person. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at mGage (Los Angeles, CA) in Feb 2020
Interview
Interview process:
- (Slightly) Technical Phone screen
- Online assessment test (through HackerRank)
- On-site
The overall process took a couple of weeks.
The phone screen was a typical phone screen where you were asked about your past experiences. They might throw in a couple of technical questions in there such as... "describe how X works".
The online assessment was on Hacker rank - 3 coding questions (2 easy 1 medium). iirc it was about 90 minutes.
On-site is about 3 hours long, where you get to chat to different devs.
From the interviewers personalities, I got an impression that its a very "chill" environment, the office was pretty empty so I would imagine you can work from home which is cool.
I think they did a great job explaining current challenges the company is facing and the type of work you will be doing if hired.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Coding questions: Not going to tell the exact interview questions, but just brush up on common coding questions and you should be fine. About a week of practice on HackerRank should do it.
Programming concepts/knowledge: I think this is the part where I messed up, while they are not super difficult on coding algorithms interview questions, one of the interviewers seemed a bit picky when it comes to programming/computer science concepts. Though you may know them in practice from your day-to-day it may also be wise to read up on them and know them in a scholarly manner (as though you are about to take a school exam on it).
So... definitely brush up on key concepts regarding: any framework you claim are familiar with, OOP, concurrency, SQL operations, design patterns, system design... can't remember all the questions but you get the idea. Think more breadth than depth here and just know the common concepts regarding those different topics.