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).
- Video call through Blue Jeans platform.
- Some behavioral questions and some technical questions. The interviewer discriminated against my English ability. He told me to answer him too slowly.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Toptal (Buenos Aires) in Jul 2022
Interview
First, I had a short interview with a person to talk about the job position, salary, benefits.
Secondly I had to schedule a meeting for the technical interview (first time the interviewer cancelled the interview 5 minutes before starting). When I had the meeting the interviewer gave me a link where I had the instructions, it was a react exercise. An app that I had to complete but in 30 minutes. Couldn't complete it on time so I failed the interview. Then a mail was sent letting me know that I had failed and I could ask for another interview in 90 days.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Just a simple app that had to show some products but with some implementation tricks that made the challenge quite interesting.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Toptal (New York, NY) in Mar 2022
Interview
It was a challenging interview process. Especially the final stage. The first stage was mostly about English knowledge and the second stage was an easy coding task. The third stage was somewhat harder, a live coding challenge. During the project work the hard part is to satisfy all the needs like in real life with a client.