Hinge interview questions

Overall, a pretty solid waste of time (~14 hours) and vacation days. It appears that they don’t care about respecting candidates’ time or adhering to the values they like to talk about. Avoid unless you are looking to practice interviewing over Zoom. Began the process early last month. First step involved a call with the internal recruiter who went over culture and salary expectations. Next was a Zoom call with a Director to go over past experiences. After that, a coding exercise was sent over, with a 3 day deadline. The exercise itself takes a not insignificant amount of time to complete, even though what is asked for is fairly basic. A few days later, the final round interview was scheduled, which was 4 rounds of Zoom calls. This included talking to a variety of directors, engineers and C-suite members. Several interviewers seemed to be going off of lists of pre-prepared questions without much other discussion. Director-level employees seemed much too inexperienced to hold such roles. After the interview there was total radio silence from Hinge; not even a courtesy email thanking the candidates who make it to the final round for their time.

For a company that supposedly takes pride in operating with core values, absolutely none of them were shown during the interview process. I wonder what was the point of interviewing me at all. First is a Zoom interview with their Director of Mobile Engineering (which was unusual because 1. you usually meet these guys after 2nd rounds and 2. he was pretty inexperienced to be a director of anything according to LinkedIn). He unexpectedly brought in an android engineer which wasn’t too bad but he was damn near sleeping the whole time. We went over my experience, some basic behavioral questions, and “company culture.” Afterwards, the recruiter sent me an email to request a phone interview. I answered promptly with my availability. The next day he sent the exact same email and I sent the exact same response. He finally confirmed the next day. The day of the phone call, he was 10 minutes late to calling me. I finished the call anyway and received the assessment which was a prompt to create a people counter app. I sent in my assessment the following Monday morning. I had to email the recruiter to know if he even got it because he didn’t respond. I haven’t heard back since. I would suggest anyone who applies to keep your options wide open. They do not follow what they preach.