I sent a resume and got an (almost) immediate response which included a lot of credits ($500 USD). The "code challenge" they sent doesn't make practical sense and the person responding isn't from HR. They're a "Retail Sales Manager at Fly.io". This whole thing just feels off, like some weird sales tactic. Does anyone know these people?
Ask HN: Anyone Interviewed at Fly.io?
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Re: Ask HN: Anyone Interviewed at Fly.io?
#2I've also had a not so cool experience with them, the interviewer canceled 30 mins before the call and mentioned they will send an email to reschedule tomorrow. That was in September 2021, haven't heard back again :)
Re: Ask HN: Anyone Interviewed at Fly.io?
#3I've also had a not so cool experience with them, the interviewer canceled 30 mins before the call and mentioned they will send an email to reschedule tomorrow. That was in September 2021, haven't heard back again :)
I was applying for a infra role and they asked me to setup an app and ELK stack in nomad on fly.io... I don't think their target market has infrastructure people and it just feels like Russian dolls.
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#4They were polite and gave credits as well, but I really thought the programming challenge was ill defined and broad. From the interviews and challenges I've run, it was much too broad and really required rereading and a lot of assumptions. Their response wasn't very clear either. Could have just been me, but I've never run into that situation anywhere else/
I will say though, they were very polite.
Re: Ask HN: Anyone Interviewed at Fly.io?
#5They were polite and gave credits as well, but I really thought the programming challenge was ill defined and broad. From the interviews and challenges I've run, it was much too broad and really required rereading and a lot of assumptions. Their response wasn't very clear either. Could have just been me, but I've never run into that situation anywhere else/ I will say though, they were very polite.
They have been very friendly with me as well but your feedback echos my experience thus far.
Re: Ask HN: Anyone Interviewed at Fly.io?
#6Maybe they're outsourcing their hiring to some third-party firm?
Re: Ask HN: Anyone Interviewed at Fly.io?
#7I interviewed for a role there, got quick replies to my emails too. Didn't need to use any credits to do the challenge (but they mentioned that I could ask for it if I wanted to). The challenge itself was not easy, and I assume that was exactly what they were aiming for.
Besides the interview I've already talked with them and they were really friendly and eager to help (it was not a business talk, I'm doing some academic research and wanted to discuss some things regarding networks/infra-sec). I believe you just had the wrong idea, specially when you mention "some weird sales tactic".
Edit: in my experience, the code challenge made a lot of sense.
Re: Ask HN: Anyone Interviewed at Fly.io?
#8I interviewed for a role there, got quick replies to my emails too. Didn't need to use any credits to do the challenge (but they mentioned that I could ask for it if I wanted to). The challenge itself was not easy, and I assume that was exactly what they were aiming for. Besides the interview I've already talked with them and they were really friendly and eager to help (it was not a business talk, I'm doing some acad…
It just felt wrong, thanks for letting me know. Seems weird to run an orchestration system in another one. Fly wasn't meant to be a VPS / server host and using it as one seems odd to me.
Re: Ask HN: Anyone Interviewed at Fly.io?
#9Maybe they're outsourcing their hiring to some third-party firm?
Chicago based per linkedin.
Re: Ask HN: Anyone Interviewed at Fly.io?
#10I interviewed for a role there, got quick replies to my emails too. Didn't need to use any credits to do the challenge (but they mentioned that I could ask for it if I wanted to). The challenge itself was not easy, and I assume that was exactly what they were aiming for. Besides the interview I've already talked with them and they were really friendly and eager to help (it was not a business talk, I'm doing some acad…
It just felt wrong, thanks for letting me know. Seems weird to run an orchestration system in another one. Fly wasn't meant to be a VPS / server host and using it as one seems odd to me.
I don't work for fly, but I'll say that while the end-user of fly.io isn't expected to run an orchestration system, fly.io themselves runs an orchestration system (nomad from what I can tell), so it seems like a fairly reasonable idea for a take home evaluation for an infrastructure role at the company to evaluate skills/knowledge about orchestration systems.