Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Freelancer as 100% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Freelancer and rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Freelancer and roles were rated as the easiest.
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I applied in-person. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Freelancer (San Francisco, CA) in Feb 2013
Interview
Easy! no hard questions. Just Do it yourself, if you will it, it will be! Make the leap, its worth it. If you need encouragement, ask the others who came before you.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Freelancer (San Diego, CA) in Jan 2016
Interview
No interview, just making time marketing yourself with writing. Once you go through the sign up, there you can just add banking information and you'll be ready to service others
There were three steps to the interview process: a very short phone interview with the technical recruiter, a technical exam/interview with a tech lead in the company, and a final face to face interview with the regional director. The tech interview was the most difficult, but they will tell you a few days in advance what to study for (which was very helpful). It's all written in paper (no whiteboard coding) and you get to solve the problems alone rather than in front of people. They don't care what language you use since you will be discussing your answers to their questions with the tech leads later, so you have enough time to prepare. It's more of a discussion as you go through your answers, rather than a formal interview. I recommend applying here just for this step - the interviewers for this part are smart but forgiving, and you'll walk away having learned something new.
It was a good interview process - not too long, had enough time to get to know the company. Except for the phone interview, you do everything in their office so you get to see the day to day work in person, and they'll give you free food from the pantry afterwards.
You can really tell from the interview that the people there were smart and valued the company culture they were building.
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Question 1
For the final interview, I was asked about my experiences based on what was on my resume.