I initially had an interview with their in-house recruiter where we discussed the position, perks, and my background. From there I took a coding test they created in-house via HackerRank. Then I had an interview with two developers. The HackerRank test was really well done. I appreciate that kind of assessment more than any whiteboarding questions. However, the two devs I interviewed with were very junior. It was the first professional developer job that either had held. At the time of the interview I've had 7+ years of experience and my position was for over $100k. It was a huge red flag that there wasnt even a manager present and that he/she trusted two junior developers I could run circles around to evaluate me. I didnt get the position because they didnt care for some of my comments about my previous employer. Apparently, the culture is peak trendy startup and you only succeed if you want to act like a man child.

I was reached out online to apply for the position. I did and went through the steps. There is a lot of emphasis on company culture and satisfaction with what the role requires- possibly a lot more so than any technical questions. Communication was pretty frustrating throughout the process and the reason I rate the experience as neutral. There were weeks where I heard nothing and almost thought I was being ghosted only to end up advancing in the interview process. Also took a very long time to hear back after the final interview to receive the offer letter. I was told days to expect a response and wouldn't get one until a week later. The people in the interviews were very honest and seemed like real people. Olive appears to be a rapidly growing company which can explain why communication was slow- the interviewers were nice even though they said they've been doing a lot of interviews lately. The technical questions were 2 easy leetcode style questions with 1 API question related to obtaining and processing data from an endpoint. Nothing too difficult. Interviewers are more interested in seeing how you work through a problem and will ask a lot of questions regarding how you work in a team and how you face challenges that you encounter.