I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Airtime (San Francisco, CA) in Apr 2011
Interview
Interview process was relatively standard to normal software engineer interview process. Interesting part was that it involved "pair programming" on a laptop that the candidate is to bring.
Interview lasted about 4 hours with a 45 minute lunch between three interviewers.
Some of the folks I interviewed with seemed a bit elitist -- I felt one was just setting me up to fail, another a bit more reasonable but I don't think he gave me enough of a chance, and the third I felt he asked me too simple of a question because maybe he thought I was dumb (their way of cutting an interview short more gracefully?). He had me write a program to print a circle in ASCII ... That's beginner stuff; it was a simple program to write. Before I had this last interview, I overheard that the previous interviewer and this person talking for a while, though I could not hear what they were saying. This is a pretty unprofessional thing to do and something we discourage at my organization.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Write an iterator class for a binary search tree to print the tree in ascending numeric order
Reverse a UTF8 buffer in language of choice without using any libraries / built-in UTF8-handling functions. Candidate is expected to research UTF-8 encoding online as part of the pair programming exercise.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Airtime (Palo Alto, CA) in Oct 2016
Interview
The interview process was very informal and there was no formal coding test that I can recall. After a couple of phone interviews which were wide-ranging the general assumption was that coding questions were a waste of everyone's time.
There was a single all-day interview on-site where I had four meetings with four different groups of people / individuals including my prospective team-mates, my prospective "partner" within the company, and the top product and technical people.
Like most good interview processes, the conversations were very fluid and interesting. There were no "gotcha" questions or dumb programming tricks.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was asked to discuss the pros and cons of different front-end frameworks for web and desktop (via Electron or similar) development.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Airtime (New York, NY) in Aug 2016
Interview
Exchanged some emails with a recruiter then talked with HR. After that they emailed me a coding challenge. Then another call with CTO. And after that on site interview for about 5 hours with 5 people.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Airtime (New York, NY) in May 2016
Interview
Had a 15 mins call with an HR recruiter, the schedule call via Airtime. They emailed me a coding challenge. The programming challenge was easy and straight forward. I got an email from recruiter that they didn't like my solution. I was disappointed because there was no feedback. There is no point in investing your time when you don't get back anything in return.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I don't remember the question but it was a simple graph DFS traversal related question for a disconnected graph.
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Airtime with 2.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 25% positive. To compare, the company-average is 56.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 11 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Airtime overall takes an average of 14 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Airtime as a Software Engineer according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 40%
Group panel interview: 20%
Drug test: 20%
One on one interview: 20%
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