Preparing for your Technical Interview with Qoala
If you have landed here, we are hoping that you are interested in interviewing with Qoala, or are just curious about our tech interview process? We want to be transparent about what to expect so you feel well prepared and ultimately, have a positive candidate experience. We at Qoala are looking for engineers who help us towards our goal to make insurance accessible and affordable for all.
What are we looking for?
To answer this question we very much follow Joel Spolsky (the creator of Stack Overflow) who wrote: “In principle, it’s simple. We are looking for people who are 1) Smart and 2) Get things done.”
On top of these two criteria, we are also looking for people that fit into the team and who we would enjoy working with. We want to hire engineers who we believe will be successful at Qoala and who help create a work environment where everybody looks forward to coming back every day.
In a nutshell we are looking for people who are smart, empathetic, communicate well, believe in documentation and care for each other.
The Interview Process
You will usually go through the following steps during the process:
- Initial call with a recruiter (30min)