I applied online. I interviewed at Toptal (Moscú, ) in Jan 2021
Interview
Interview was online. Interviewer with "poker face" like a robot told me all the info what was previously recorded into him. Then he complained about sound quality. I talk every day with my colleages no issus on my sound. Also he talked too quickly so it made some difficulties in speech recognition.
Interview lasted 6 minutes, previously it was announced that it would last 10.
My guess that, on the interview they are trying to show all your weaknesses, to decrease your rate, no attpemts to figure out overall experiensce and skill set.
Worst interview ever, in overall looks like they want to hire as cheap as they can, and sell as expensive as they can.
It looks like that toptal have prejudice to candidates from Russia. Thank you and goodbye, toptal.
I applied online. I interviewed at Toptal in Jan 2021
Interview
The concept is good but execution a joke. The screening test may work well for some technical roles, but management roles are much more difficult to screen this way. The 25 minute test was super simplistic in most ways. Other dimensions of the test were vague and could be interpreted multiple ways. Sorry I wasted my time with this experience.
I applied online. I interviewed at Toptal (New York, NY) in Nov 2019
Interview
The process consists on technical interview + algorythm tests using the language of my stack. Then I have to create a small piece of code (Full Stack Engineer) making a quick endpoint and CRUD .