I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Slack (Melbourne)
Interview
Applied via Slack website. Received an email letting me know I was progressing to the next stage (and included a written task for completion).
After this I received an email saying I was being progressed to a phone interview and to select my availability via a calendar tool. Despite selecting every business day that week, I received no reply and no call. I then received another email with the same instructions for the following week. Again, despite making myself readily available, I received no reply and no call.
To be honest, at this point I would not proceed with Slack. As a company that boasts about it’s customer service, Slack needs to understand that potential and current employees are also “their” customers and in this day and age this sort of applicant experience is appalling.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How have you handled negative feedback from a customer?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Slack in Jan 2020
Interview
Such a weird and time consuming interview process. The recruiter was AMAZING and super helpful with all of the steps. It's frustrating that the each interview was long and the presentation was very time consuming. One of the interviews they'll go through your resume for 90 minutes- yes 90 minutes! They drill into every little detail and it almost feels like an interrogation. I get that you need to understand why people made certain decisions to get to where they are but there's probably a better way to do it. The final interview was a presentation that could have been a bit simpler. It was very time consuming to do and unfortunately I didn't get an offer. Even if I were to get an offer, I would have still been irritated with the amount of time I spent in the process. Companies need to realize candidates aren't only interviewing at that specific company and should keep interviews shorter to respect time.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
What was one thing your manager would say you do well? what would be one area they would say you could improve?
Go through EVERY detail of your resume. Even if it was from 10 years ago. Why did you choose the college you went to? Why did you choose the degree you chose? What are you most proud of?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Slack (Dublín, Dublín) in Feb 2020
Interview
The interview process was very nice. It took less than four weeks to complete.
The first three interviews happened remotely including a screening, a behavioural interview and a pair programming exercise.
The final interview at Slack Offices took five hours consisting in 4 interviews with several team members. Slack people are really nice they were super kind and friendly. There were breaks between sessions and I was offered snacks and drinks.
After a few days I got an offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Think about a distributed system you have worked on and describe the main challenges/issues you have faced dealing with it.