I applied online. I interviewed at Slack in Apr 2021
Interview
The first round was a general discussion round with HR.
Then second round was again a discussion round to know about my skills and to evaluate whether my skills and my profile matches with the job requirements or not.
During second round I was surprised to see that interview questions were completely irrelevant to the job profile. After the interview process I has written to Human Resource team also that interview question were irrelevant to the job profile I applied for.
Additionally, it was nowhere mentioned about incident response in the job description when I applied. The complete job description was about DevSecOps Engineer. Incident response team specialisation is completely different then DevSecOps Engineer. But HR team also didn't respond to my email.
Overall the interview process was very disappointing. I never expect such type of irrelevant interview questions from Slack company. If they have to reject my profile, then they can reject it directly. I wonder why they organise such a fake interview process just to waste the time and to disappoint the candidate with irrelevant questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Do you have an experience working with Incident Response Team? Which is a mandatory requirement for this role.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Slack (Dublín, Dublín) in Jan 2021
Interview
Easily the best interview experience I’ve had to date. Throughout the entire process, there was constant communication and transparency from the recruitment team.
The process is well structured, however still flexible and there was detailed briefings before each stage.
The interviews themselves go deep on your experience which was nice to take the interviewers through. There was a relaxed feel to the interviews too which also helped with being able to keep focused throughout and give the best account of myself
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What was one of your biggest accomplishments in that previous role?
HR contact extremely helpful. Was not offered original job I interviewed for but was told they felt I was the right fit for the company and wanted to find a place for me.