Comment by orourkme | Hacker News Reader

Comment by orourkme | Hacker News Reader

Compose | Remote (Canada, US, UK)

What: Databases-as-a-service. We offer production grade, auto-scaling, automatically backed-up, add-on compatible MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, and more.

Hiring Process: Blind hiring! First, a light application. Second, all candidates who complete the application receive a work-sample resembling the work one would do in the role. No deadline. Final step is a paid work day ($500).

Compose has grown into a vibrant group where folks can feel comfortable being themselves, living a balanced life. We welcome you to enjoy comfort when taking risks, collaborate with spirited peers, and to unleash your creative and talented personality.

* Work from anywhere!

* Many neat conundrums to solve.

* Self-managing, distributed decision making. Choose your projects. We're deadline averse and quality focused.

* Hardly any meetings.

* Ruby/Go.

* Fizz: https://www.compose.io/articles/the-tool-we-built-to-help-us....

Roles:

* Platform Engineer / Application Developer

* Support Engineer

* Technical Content Creator ('Developer Advocacy' type of role)

To begin: https://compose.interviewed.com

I suggest searching the internet for a couple of minutes for reviews of this application process before you continue. I didn't take heed of the warnings about unresponsiveness and got bit. I submitted an application after grayfox claimed that the review process described here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11611867 was improved, and I sincerely felt that my time would be respected during the process.

After submitting the first round of homework assignments in early May, Compose changed the application rules. According to the posted guidelines I expected a contract gig or an in person interview upon progression. Instead, I was given a second homework assignment, asking for real feedback and product improvement recommendations.

I figured that must have been in response to a large number of applications, and that I was still in the running, so I spent 6 hours more on diagramming their architecture and recommending improvements. Total time for homework: 12hrs.

I followed up mid-June to see whether or not a review had been made, and was told that my submission was still in the review process. It's August now and I haven't heard anything - but I _have_ taken a position with a much more responsive company.

Yea, I applied to Compose a while back. After they described their interview process to me, I said "No thanks."

That's something I'd never done before. In the past, even if I found a company's interview process to be dehumanizing and insulting, I still went through with it. Even if I wasn't desperate for a job. I just hated to say no.

Thank you, Compose, for presenting me with a hiring process so absurd it forced me to step outside of my comfort zone and grow just a little bit more as a person :)

You made the right choice!

I went through the process, did the work day, and it's actually more free work than you think and you get treated less kindly than you'd imaginine. Thanks for the 500$ i guess.

Correct Fizz link https://www.compose.com/articles/the-tool-we-built-to-help-u...

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