Fragen im Vorstellungsgespräch bei SoundCloud

Well structured and organised. Interview held by 5 people from different product, , marketing and engineering departments. Four stages overall: general call, product interview by executive, peer interview (3 people from marketing, business and engineering, onsite interview) and one project presentation.

Long, long process. Six weeks and four interviews. Over three weeks to get an answer after the fourth interview. Quite a bummer after practically being told I had it in the third interview. I noticed the person they went with doesn't have much relevant experience work or education wise at all, and that was just a lot younger. Ageism sucks yo.

Story short: I've been ghosted. Details below. Interview process consists of a coding task to refactor and complete a programme on my own, then there are online interviews 45~60 mins each: PM interview, bar raiser interview, system design interview, tech manager interview and pair programming interview. After my coding task was submitted I've got quite positive feedback about it and was invited to online calls. I was promised I will get feedback regarding of the result, which was a good sign, because I think it's quite nice to get a feedback if you spend ~2 days unpaid for an interview process. It has been already 3 weeks, I didn't receive anything from SoundCloud, my kind requests to provide me with any feedback are ignored.

It was a thorough but casual and conversational process throughout. The interview committee spanned multiple teams within the company and everyone was impressive and friendly. Overall, it was a very pleasant and positive experience.

After sending my application, the interviewer reached out personally and asked me for my availability, we scheduled a 1-hour interview. There was a lot of generic questions that you should expect from a big company. This was sadly responded to with an automated rejection from a do-not reply email address. While I understand the competition is fierce for a role with a company like this, I don't think this is appropriate given the time I took to do the interview. The interviewer had already emailed me from her personal account so the rejection should have come from there. Also a simple thank you for your time is better than "we don't have any suitable positions" . Just left a bad taste.

Initial interview with recruiter followed by four 45 minute interviews with senior executives in and adjacent to the team for which they were hiring. I was recruited by a team lead with whom I had an existing relationship, so this process may have been shortened in reflection of that working knowledge of one another.

The interview process was nice and I really loved the feedback I received from the company. It first started with having a discussion with the HR person talking basically about the several teams in the company and what I can bring to the team. Then the next is followed by an Android Test challenge were you will build an Android App to show your experience in the position you are applying for.

The entire interview process lasted about 30 minutes, give or take, and my interviewer was spectacularly on time. We discussed my background and if I had any questions regarding the role and the company, but since I had done my homework, I only had a few questions to ask.

I had a call with HR and then an hour long interview with someone in technical leadership. I was not asked any technical questions at all during this interview, only soft skill questions such as "how do you make decisions?" and "what is your leadership style?". For a senior technical role with no people management duties, I was surprised to say the least, the questions were what I would expect of a management or VP role. I tried to give technical specifics at various points in the interview but was generally shut down by the interviewer asking me to be *less* specific. I then heard nothing for two weeks... even after sending a follow up email a week later. In the end the recruiter got back to me telling me they were not moving forward with me due to my interview performance, in particular I had not given a satisfactory answer about trade-offs on a project. In general the process didn't seem particularly professional for a senior technical role. How they could assess my application with no take home exercise and no technical questions is beyond me.

It was a long process of 5 interviews with different people from HR, designers, engineers, and product managers. All of the interviewers were asking the same questions. It felt a bit like the hiring process is very siloed. Some interviewers were actually a bit harsh and not very welcoming. Others were really great and fun to speak with, especially the Berlin team.