I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Target (Springfield, OR)
Interview
Initially I had someone reach out to me via Indeed. From there I had a chat with the recruiter who walked me through the job and next steps. I completed an application and then a video interview that consisted of 6 questions. After that was sent in I was told to schedule a face to face interview at the store. When I arrived at my interview my scheduled interviewer was unaware that she had anything scheduled. She recovered quickly and took me upstairs to the offices. The store director was on a phone call at that point so she took me to another room while we waited. What I was unaware of is that the interview hadn't quite started and that we were waiting for the store director. We chitchatted for at least 30 minutes before the store director arrived. It all seemed very casual at this point. We started a packet of questions very similar to the video interview questions. I answered everything and then I was thanked for my time. I did not get the job which felt a bit confusing after seemingly being fast tracked and then a very cheery and lengthly interview.
I applied online. I interviewed at Target (Bengaluru)
Interview
Interviewer despite boasting about 15+ years in the industry could not understand that Kafka is a distributed log system and kept saying it’s not.
Despite clarifying I do not have experience with NoSql DBs, and only sql DBs still went ahead and asked deep questions about nosql.
Fully remote process, a question would appear and there was a time limit to record an answer with no redo attempts. You did not get to talk to a real person. This was during COVID so maybe that is why.