Interviews are a great opportunity to showcase your skills and experience. Here's everything you need to succeed!

Overview

Your Invitation

Getting Started

Acknowledgements

Hardware Verification

The Questions

Submitting Your Interview

A Note on Time Estimates vs. Time Limits

Feedback on Your Interview

More Information

The Filtered interview process involves 3 stages:

In the first few pages, you will be asked to accept the terms of use, test your hardware, and familiarize yourself with the testing environment.

You will need to complete a selection of video questions and coding challenges. This may take anywhere from 20 minutes to 4 hours depending on the test.

You will be required to log in with one of the following social accounts: Linkedin, Github, Bitbucket or Gitlab. You will also need to verify your personal information and upload a resume in some cases. You will be able to preview your information before final submission.

Your interview is now complete and has been submitted to reviewers. You will be asked to take an optional survey about your interview experience.

To begin, you will likely receive an email similar to the example below, which gives you lots of preview information and a link to start the interview:

You can find basic information about time, questions, and allowed languages in this email. It will also tell you about some requirements, such as supported browsers and downloading an extension. See the full checklist before starting an interview here.

Once you click your Interview link, you'll be taken to the starting page. Depending on the configuration of the interview as determined by the hiring team, some of the following steps may be skipped.

First, you'll be asked to install the Filtered extension.

The extension aids with the interview process by adding functionality to the code editor, as well as enabling certain security features. The extension will attempt to uninstall after the interview automatically, but you can safely uninstall it manually after the interview ends if needed.

Once the browser extension has been installed, you can begin your interview and follow the prompts on the screen.

Depending on the company/position you are applying for, you may be asked to complete one or more forms required by the US government to be asked by employers (these are always optional).

Next, you will be prompted to test your hardware. Please make sure all checks have passed to continue to the next step. See how to test/troubleshoot your hardware here.

The next slide tells you about all the questions that are included in this interview, as well as their configuration, supported languages, and time limits.

There are also links to sample questions to help you familiarize yourself with the interview environment. Everything about the sample question (video or coding) is the same as in the real interview, except that the question content is for demo purposes and that there is no button to submit. This will let you familiarize yourself with the environment.

It is strongly recommended that you try the sample questions before moving on to the real interview.

When you are ready, you can click "START INTERVIEW NOW" to begin your interview. It is from this point that your interview has started.

Filtered supports 6 types of interview questions. Please refer to the following links for detailed information of each type:

During the interview, Filtered will auto-save your progress. If your browser freezes/shuts down, or if you have to leave during the interview, you can reopen the invitation link that was sent to you via email to continue. However, It’s strongly recommended that you finish the interview without interruption. 

Once a question is submitted, you cannot retake it or go back to a previous question. For certain video questions, you will be told beforehand if the question allows multiple re-takes.

After you have finished all interview questions, and depending on the company/position you are applying for, you may be asked to provide availability to help with scheduling a next round interview. At this point, you have not yet been shortlisted by the recruiter. However, providing availability will signal your intent to the recruiter and speed up the process in the event that you are shortlisted.

Next, you must connect with a social media account to verify your identity and pass along some personal information to the recruiter. Filtered supports LinkedIn, Github, Bitbucket, Gitlab, or Facebook (depending on the company you are applying for). See Filtered's policy with social media account here.

Depending on the company/position you are applying for, you may also be asked to upload a resume. Filtered accepts files in PDF, doc, docx, txt formats. Please do not upload an image (jpg, png, gif, bmp, webp).

You'll need to fill in all of your personal information (most is optional) and click the "SUBMIT" button to complete your interview.

That's it! Congratulations completing your Filtered interview.

"Time estimate" is the amount of time the interview is expected to take you so that you can plan your time accordingly. It is NOT a time limit, and there will not be a countdown once the interview has started.

Some coding challenges may have a time limit which will start when you begin those challenges. We strongly recommend that you take the interview in a quiet place, and plan for enough time without distractions, just like a regular in-person interview.

Filtered is unable to provide feedback on your interview. For information about your status in the hiring process, you should reach out to the hiring team of the company you're applying to.

For Filtered interview environment details and technical capabilities, please check our Filtered guide

For tech support questions about this process, email us at support@filtered.ai.

For questions related to the interview content, time limit, or challenges, please reach out to your recruiter.