The process was smooth, and hiring team is professional. The questions were challenging, I went through the last round mixed with tech questions and bq, but didn’t get the offer.
This is the 3rd time they are making interview appointment and no body shows up! This is disgrace! Make sure you know who you are spending your time interviewing.
I'm not sure if this is intentional and try are just trying to keep themself busy and show that they are hiring or...
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Rivian in Jan 2022
Interview
The recruiter was fantastic throughout the process, but the initial technical interview was the worst interview experience I've ever had. I am only providing this feedback in hopes that no one else has the same experience as me.
After joining the Zoom call with my camera on, I saw a different person join than the engineer I was supposed to interview with. They mentioned that they were calling from their phone from the lab so they wouldn't be able to enable video. There was a lot of background noise, and after asking them to repeat questions a few times I asked if there was a different way we could continue the call. They called me back after a few minutes on my cell, but the audio on their end was still inaudible. I apologized for asking them to repeat themself so many times, I simply couldn't understand them. They then said they would move to a different room so that we could try Zoom again.
Finally, I could hear them and we were able to continue, but we had less than half of the time remaining. For the coding section, they copy/pasted a prompt, told me to solve it, and went on mute. There was no audio/video the entire time I worked through it. No discussion, suggestions, critiques or guidance whatsoever. When I did provide a solution, they did not understand it. Four times I tried explaining my answer step by step, but they were unable to grasp my approach. I was and still am confident in my answer.
I was excited about this opportunity, so this was extremely disappointing.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The coding question came from LeetCode, and involved manipulating a linked list.