There are plenty of companies out there use ambush interview methods.
A recruiter presented an opportunity with Fidelity Investment, and told me she’s had several candidates who broke down during their 3-stage, multi-panel interviewing process. I asked her if the candidates told her any reasons. She gave me two example questions: 1) How does video streaming work, and the platform you would implement it? 2) How does a SMS message get transmitted, and what would be the data structure like?
I laughed and told the recruiter I definitely wouldn’t break down because I had implemented those two protocols in the past when I was an embedded engineer. And I told her, Charles Schwab is on par on reputation with Fidelity except they conduct ONE technical interview and asked real world use case questions. What does video streaming or SMS messaging have anything to do with Asset Management applications?
It’s ridiculous. Wayfair hire third party interviewing companies to do their dirty deeds, asking questions which would have taken days or weeks to solve but expect candidates to provide answers within 30 seconds, and the algorithm test must be completed within 15 minutes. Along the way the interviewer kept interrupting candidates with questions. Maybe he thought he was helping?
Don’t work for those companies. Their ways of sifting through candidates are tell tale signs of how they will treat you once you step through their doors.
You deserve better.
For further actions, you may consider blocking this person and/or reporting abuse
We're a place where coders share, stay up-to-date and grow their careers.
There are plenty of companies out there use ambush interview methods.
A recruiter presented an opportunity with Fidelity Investment, and told me she’s had several candidates who broke down during their 3-stage, multi-panel interviewing process. I asked her if the candidates told her any reasons. She gave me two example questions: 1) How does video streaming work, and the platform you would implement it? 2) How does a SMS message get transmitted, and what would be the data structure like?
I laughed and told the recruiter I definitely wouldn’t break down because I had implemented those two protocols in the past when I was an embedded engineer. And I told her, Charles Schwab is on par on reputation with Fidelity except they conduct ONE technical interview and asked real world use case questions. What does video streaming or SMS messaging have anything to do with Asset Management applications?
It’s ridiculous. Wayfair hire third party interviewing companies to do their dirty deeds, asking questions which would have taken days or weeks to solve but expect candidates to provide answers within 30 seconds, and the algorithm test must be completed within 15 minutes. Along the way the interviewer kept interrupting candidates with questions. Maybe he thought he was helping?
Don’t work for those companies. Their ways of sifting through candidates are tell tale signs of how they will treat you once you step through their doors.
You deserve better.