I applied more than two months ago, did this test and submitted everything, but never got a response. That’s very underwhelming given the time I put into the application.

That was a really fun challenge and helped me freshen up on some skills I forgot I had. Thanks for that.

Why are you having people do some sort of CTF challenge to even apply?

we get a lot of volume and this helps us quickly identify people that are a) strongly motivated and b) strong candidates

But you also deter the strongest candidates because you are not considerate of their time which also gives the wrong impression of the culture at Ramp. Requiring a challenge that could take x amount of hours to complete on a very slim chance that person would get hired is very inconsiderate. There is no incentive. Not everyone who is looking for a job is straight out of college, unmarried and/or don't have other responsibilities. Just because a candidate chooses not to do this challenge doesn’t mean that person wouldn’t be “strongly motivated” or a “strong candidate” to work for you. That’s why proper interview processes exist to sort out those individuals. If you want to limit the amount of “volume”, I would suggest considering other methods or not hire at all. I would assume that the fact I see job postings everywhere for Ramp, including here, and the fact that you require this challenge, must mean you are getting little “volume” of applicants.

plenty of us are married with kids, weird extrapolation. you spent more time debating this on hn than you could've spent on our challenge. i'll chalk it up as bad prioritization :)

I did the Android take home last year and built it with full MVI, Compose, and unit tests and was rejected because the reviewer didn’t like the default animation between screens.

Please tell us more about how Ramp respected my time!

How condescending. Whether you love this job or not, there seems to be valid criticism about your hiring process. Instead of responding with empathy and concern, the glib responses are a turn off on their own. Are you setting a good corporate example in treating candidates this way? Is this representative of your work culture?

Is that you, ramperson?

https://www.teamblind.com/post/WTF-Ramp-hTcivWMw

In some sense "strongly motivated" is "strongly desperate".

Android/iOS openings are not listed on your page.

Interested in the iOS Engineer job, but didn't find that opening on your careers page. Also, it isn't mentioned if this is a remote worldwide opening? Or just US remote?

Does this mean remote anywhere within US? or anywhere in world?

I was wondering the same, and saw that this was asked in previous Who is hiring threads, but a clear answer on what "Remote" means was never provided, so until that happens here's what I found:

Seems like Europe is a "maybe" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35428210 and Canada is a "yes" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35427290

I also looked it up on LinkedIn. Out of 148 employees marked as working in engineering on LinkedIn, only 14 are based outside the US - and all 14 are in Canada.

Some older comments in Who is hiring? Threads say "continental US preferred", and "US timezone preferred", but these comments are a few years old - although the data on LinkedIn seems to imply that this is still the case.

Well, that's not "remote anywhere".

updated. we're currently primarily looking at US, Canada, and Argentina and always exploring other options

Just curious whats stopping your company to hire worldwide, Is it just timezone or local laws/regulations?

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