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Other comment mentions difficult onboarding process at Toptal with 3 interviews, is this also your impression?
by mgraupner 5y ago
Other comment mentions difficult onboarding process at Toptal with 3 interviews, is this also your impression?
- vultour 5y agoIt's their whole sales pitch - "hire the top 3% freelance talent". You're not getting in through a casual 30 minute conversation.
- mgraupner 5y agoI understand, still would be interested in his experience.
- bckygldstn 5y agoThe interview process is onerous more than difficult: mostly leetcode style questions that need lots of practice for, plus a basic but time-consuming take-home task. And for me the scheduling was super difficult: the whole process took weeks, with the only times available at odd hours West Coast US time, and my recruiter flaking and rescheduling once. Beyond some basic level of coding, it's more a test of patience and time.
- knuthsat 5y agoAutomatically evaluated leet coding session (2 hours) + Live English language check interview (15 mins) + 2 week fake template project + Live coding session (30 mins). I was fortunate enough to pass everything without additional attempts and had no job at that time. Some of my friends got in after 1 year (after you fail at some step, 2nd attempt is delayed), some never managed to complete the whole process.
- wofo 5y agoTheir interview process is well documented (for instance, here https://clevercoder.net/2017/09/04/toptal-passed-interview/ https://clevercoder.net/2017/09/04/toptal-passed-interview/). My experience was that it was doable, though you need to brush up your algorithm skills and have luck with the problems you get.