I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Slack (San Francisco, CA) in Sep 2017
Interview
The interview process was smooth and fast. Everyone I spoke with was friendly and the questions asked were relevant to the role. The process consisted of an HR phone screen, a timed coding challenge, and a video call with the hiring manager.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: What is the biggest non-technical lesson you learned from previous work experience?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Slack (San Francisco, CA) in Sep 2017
Interview
Recruiter screening, next week, screening with the "Hiring manager". How can you go from being an "assistant" to being head of the whole Localization department. I asked the "hiring manager" if she/he would feel threaten by bringing in someone under her/him with 20 years more professional experience. I guess... that question got me out of the race. I would not want to work with people like this. Young and insecure. Feeling they know it all. Typical millennial star up mentality not letting the Gen X professionals a real chance!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Very cookie cutter millennial only, soft, and generic questions, e.g. What is something you would not do at work if you were asked to?
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Slack (Melbourne) in Jul 2017
Interview
Phone screen with a recruiter based in SF. General chat, and was given an idea of the upcoming interview process.
Was given a take-home challenge via email, to work on over the next week. There was a lot of room in the challenge to put as much effort as you want in, and make it as feature rich as you want. I found the challenge to be a lot of fun.
Had a 45 minute chat with the Hiring Manager, via video. Was invited on-site for a morning of interviews with a variety of people.
On-site was pretty standard, with a few key differences. Met with two people based in SF via video chat, then two local people, followed by the Hiring Manager. All of these seemed very friendly and almost laid-back. No quizzing of technical details or whiteboard coding challenges. Mostly just casual chats about Architecture (and how to improve it), Incidents (and how they are handled), Employment history and team-based questions and a few other topics.
All up, I felt really good about the interview process, and found it to be much better than the 'standard' procedure.