The hiring process at Crossover for Work takes an average of 1 day when considering 5 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Software Developer had the quickest hiring process (on average 1 day), whereas Software Developer roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 1 day).
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I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Crossover for Work (Madrid) in Sep 2019
Interview
At no point in the process did I ever have contact with a human being. Its 100% automated.
Their process is entirely automated and comprises of the following:
- Basic Fit Questions (5 mins)
- Cognitive Aptitude Multi-choice (15 mins)
- English-proficiency test - voice recording (10 minutes)
- Multiple-choice Test (20 minutes)
- Free Response Exercises - effectively design solutions for them (3 hours)
For the free response part all of your answers have to be put into separate Google Documents and shared with them. Surprisingly, Google's activity log shows no activity of anyone ever having looked at it. Yet someone apparently reviewed them and failed me?
I later reached out asking for feedback, but was told I was to consider where I went wrong, and to try again in 6 months.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
"You are asked to design an application to process mobile phone usage data on behalf of a large global telecom provider. The telecom provider wishes to know their top subscribers by revenue based on each subscriber's data usage. The raw usage data resides in thousands of log files produced daily. Each log file can be up to 256MB in size and they all contain 1-line data records, each representing 1-minute of data usage for a single subscriber. Each record includes 10 numeric fields that measure the data usage across various usage categories. The record also contains information such as the subscriber ID, and timestamp.
The files are compressed and stored in an S3 bucket organized by year, month and day.
The revenue calculation requires a number of computations to combine and price each of the 10 different usage categories, but each data record can be priced independently.
You are going to solve this problem using the Map/Reduce pattern. Submit a copy of this M/R spec template: http://bit.ly/2W2TUVA describing how to implement the various phases of Map/Reduce."
I applied online. I interviewed at Crossover for Work
Interview
The interview is several stages starting with a couple of question and then an aptitude test. After that there is a phone screen and then you do the aptitude test again under monitored conditions before you receive an offer or a regret.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Crossover for Work in Jun 2019
Interview
Interview was running Senior Vice President of Engineering and Operations hiring manager, who is actually having lower grade than the position I have applied for.
Just at the beginning of interview without any arguments the Hiring manager informed me, that I am not right fit for the EVP of Technology and Operations, and started considering me for VP of Technology and Operations which requires more technical than business expertise, and of cause I am absolutely not right fit for this position, that is why I have applied especially for EVP and not VP seniority level.
Instead of offer I have got just a suggestion to re-apply for position within "Professional Services", where I need to pass all the online assessments from the beginning while online assessments are extremely tough and took 2 weeks to acomplish.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe how many years and what kind of technical expertise do you have?