Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Toptal as 50% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Software Engineer and Data Scientist rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Communications Specialist and Software Engineer roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Toptal takes an average of 69 days when considering 4 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Software Engineer had the quickest hiring process (on average 7 days), whereas Data Scientist roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 180 days).
The process started with the video screening, You record yourself answering some Questions. After that, they sent case study, but the instructions and the timeline were very vague. They sent me a rejection after I sent the case study which I worked on For a very short time, out of worry to miss the deadline.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Generic video screening talk about yourself, your experience, etc.
1 HR, 2 leet code, 1 project, 1 project defence
If you fail one of the leet codes you have a chance to re-apply again after a year. It wasn't bad, but its going downhill now. 2022 there weare about 300+ job offerings for my role, now less than 60
Many steps, rigorous. Good communication (highly automated system), although the timing was unclear. HR screening, online profile. Request to give access to personal Gmail calendar AND ANY CALENDAR ACCESSED THROUGJ GMAIL.
Recruiter made very tempting offer, than as soon as profile was complete (took hours, over days), opportunity evaporated.