Pretty standard - phone screening, coding interview, HM behavioral interview. The recruiter and interviewer for the first coding interview were great. The coding question was relevant to the company and quite long, but not too difficult. I didn't finish, but it seems like they mainly look for your communication, thought process, and clean code. Now, the behavioral interview with the hiring manager was a little odd. The hiring manager didn't really seem like he was paying attention and was walking around the room tossing a ball while I was speaking. His follow-up questions felt like an interrogation, and some of them felt a bit intrusive. Safe to say I did not pass that round, but I believe the final round would've consisted of 2 technicals and 2 non technicals.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a list of tuples of client and appointment length and several constraints, print out a client's schedule consisting of both appointments and breaks.
The first round is a recruiter screen, followed by a coding problem. My interviewer for the second round was late for 5 minutes. There was no apologies, and did not make up for it. She abruptly ended the interview, saying "times up". She did not even give me the chance to ask questions.
The question was fairly straight forward on the surface, but it's easy to overthink and attempt all sorts of optimization. All along, I pointed out all these issues/questions but I get no help from the interviewer at all. I was told to do whatever I want and make whatever assumptions. Overall, not a great experience as the interviewer was disengaged. I did not get to move beyond this round.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Valon
Interview
Recruiter first scheduled a call with me, after that was done, scheduled an interview with an engineer there, then the interviewer question wasn't hard and was able to get it right. Was a typical leetcode question, on the easier but more tedious side of things. Still got a rejection the next morning. Very disappointing.
Fair process with a system design question, two coding rounds, and multiple behavioral interviews. Enjoyed the process, but waited in between rounds for a fair amount of time before hearing back.
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Valon with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 8% positive. To compare, the company-average is 33.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 12 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Valon overall takes an average of 19 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Valon as a Software Engineer according to 12 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 50%
Phone interview: 50%
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