I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Indeed
Interview
This company's practices were an insult to my intelligence.
I was contacted to schedule testing one night for a position that had been open for more than thirty days. (Yes, the email was sent at night.) I responded with time preferences and received an email the next morning (shortly after the start of business hours) that said they had received a lot of applications from more qualified applicants in the meantime. I responded because that obviously didn't happen. In return, I was told that the recruiter who sent that email was not in the same office as the position and had no responsibility for filling the position, and therefore they still were interested in keeping my candidacy going. They also said they were "investigating" how the rejection was sent.
I tested the next week; hours before my test started, they re-advertised the position. I took the test anyway, not expecting anything to come from it. The test itself was not as advertised. What was advertised was four questions that would test my foreign language skills. It turned out to be two items in English (testing my knowledge of the company and its products), one writing exercise in the foreign language, and a translation. Only one of the "questions' was a question.
And did I mention that the test sheet had a couple of grammar errors on it? If you're testing my writing, please show me that you have enough knowledge of writing to compose something correctly without the stringent time limit that is placed on test-takers. I hope they have a good writer evaluating these tests.
The expected rejection letter came a few days later and it contained more writing issues. I responded to ask for feedback and was told that none could be given, "as you expected," an expectation I had never expressed.
I did apply for a second job there right after receiving the final rejection just because I qualified for it and like the company's product (and need a job). Indeed runs a good website, but its HR practices are among the worst I've come across.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The translation.
The passage came from their terms of service, I think, and they prohibited the use of "outside sources" such as dictionaries or what not. Let's review: any translator worth their salt will consult dictionaries to ensure a quality product and many translation houses require their new hires to be proficient with translation software that ensures vocabulary consistency and the like. Even native speakers of a language would use these outside sources on the job. So... the translation exercise was doable if the grading standards were low-ish, but it could not have been an accurate predictor of success on the job.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Indeed
Interview
On campus interview. Instead of phone round, we had it in our campus. 2 rounds. each half an hour. Same questions from previous indeed itnerivews.But one question was new.
1) If you are getting a paragraph of string of text as input to a function, seggregate words, and find first duplicate word in the paragrpah and return it.
2) In excel sheet, the top most row. has A, B, C...Z, AA, AB....AZ,,, BA, BB...BZ...
Consider A as 1, B as 2....Z as 26, then AA as 27 , AB as 28..... The input for function would be an int and find its equivalent text.
hint by inteviewee: hash mpa, one divide, one module, StringBuilder with append function.
Let me post further questions If I get call for other interviews.