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Bar Raiser Interview
October 25th, 2022 by Andreea Salinca-MihaiThe Bar Raiser interview is a critical part of the final round of engineering interviews at SoundCloud, and it’s focused on increasing the quality of hiring, which ultimately has an impact on the products we develop for our users. In this post, we’ll talk about the training process we defined for the Bar Raiser interview.
Changing the Interview Process during Remote Working
June 30th, 2020 by Leela SharmaAt SoundCloud, we changed our hiring strategies to adapt to hiring remotely during COVID-19.
Technical Interview Reform, Part 2: The Recruiting Perspective and Results
June 26th, 2020 by Anya VoronovaSoundCloud engineers and recruiters recently comprehensively rethought the backend engineering take-home challenge. This is the second in a small series of posts, and it contains the recruiting perspective and the results of the changes.
Technical Interview Reform, Part 1: Rethinking the Backend Engineering Interview Take-Home Challenge
June 25th, 2020 by Steve ConoverSoundCloud engineers and recruiters recently comprehensively rethought the backend engineering take-home challenge. This is the first in a small series of posts about what we did and why.