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Hiring Process

Our Process

Applying for jobs is a stressful and anxiety-ridden task and we want to ease your stress by helping you set up the right expectations. We’ve outlined our hiring process and the various rounds you can expect to go through below:

When you apply for a position and get selected, you initiate a 5 Part interview process where you meet people from various backgrounds and levels of experience — often people you are likely to work with.

  • Phone Interview: The first round is a 30 minutes phone call with a Technical Expert who will spend time getting to know you and the path your career has taken so far. Coding Challenge: If the interview goes well, the next stage is a take-home coding challenge with a near-real-world piece of code that closely replicates our normal work.

    We use it to evaluate your abilities around security, performance, and problem-solving. This round should take no more than a few hours of coding, and the time you’re given is based on your availability.

    Once you’ve submitted your work, our Technical Expert will sit with you once again to go over your code and talk to you a little bit about it.
  • Culture Round: This round is around 30 minutes and a time for us to get to know each other. Our culture is what sets us apart, and we want to make sure we offer you nothing less than the best support, training, and opportunities to grow.

    This round will cover subjects including your motivations, your passions outside of work, and our mutual compatibility.
  • Meet the Managers: This is the penultimate round of the whole process and is when you will meet with a manager and senior engineer and discuss your code. This round is where we evaluate your work, communication, and effectiveness.
  • Founder’s Round: The Final Interview round is where you meet with our Founder & CEO, Karthik Chidambaram, who will spend anywhere from 30 to 45 minutes essentially getting to know you.

    Although this round can be daunting for many, remember everyone else you’ve met so far has vetted for you, feel free to have a candid conversation.

After the Founder’s Round, everyone who you’ve interviewed with from the Recruiter to the Managers and Senior Engineers get together to come to a final decision, which you are then informed of.

This usually takes anywhere between 3-5 Business Days.

We’re always looking for ways to improve our processes and if you happen to have any suggestions or ideas, feel free to drop us an email at hrteam@dckap.com

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Applying

All Openings

We like keeping things simple. Find and click on the ‘Apply Now’ button, fill in your details, upload your resume, and you’re done!

Do refrain from submitting your resumes through other DCKAP email-ids, as that increases the chances of your application getting lost.

Just your resume will do. We do not require any other documents at the stage!

We’ve built an ecosystem of innovative, driven people and that is the kind of people that fit well with us! To know more about what we value about the people in our community, head over to our Employee Handbook.

Absolutely! Once you’ve applied for one role, navigate your way to other roles you are interested in, by going back to Our Open Positions Page, and apply from the respective Job Description Page.

A Job Search is a stressful process, and we want to do our best to make it as easy for you as we can.

Once you submit your application, our system sends an automated Confirmation Email. Our recruitment team will then look over your application, and reach out to you about the next steps if we believe you will fit well into our culture and mission.

However, if we think we will not be able to support your growth, and you ours, we will reach out to you and let you know of that as well.

At DCKAP, we’re a remote-first and fully distributed workforce. We only use our Chennai offices for the DCKAP Palli initiative or community events we host. It is important to us that we do not miss an opportunity to connect with future members of the DCKAP community, so we do not want to have a generic phone number that goes unanswered, even if only a few times. We do, however, respond to emails within the same day. Please reach out to us at hrteam@dckap.com

Absolutely! We would love to know more than just about your educational and professional background. Tell us about your passions, tell us about how you give back, tell us about what you do outside of your work. We are all ears.

Over 30% of our hires are through employee referrals. We trust the judgement of our employees and encourage you to reach out to any friends or former colleagues who work at DCKAP, so they can submit your resume and vouch for you!

We are more than happy to have our old employees join us back! Send in your application and reach out to us directly.
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Interviewing

All Openings

We are glad you are considering joining the DCKAP community, and look forward to getting to know you!

Once you submit your resume, Our goal is to make sure you are the right fit for us, and we are the right fit for you. Here is a brief overview of the process we use to meet that goal.

As mentioned above, the goal of Our recruitment team is to make sure we are the right fit for each other, and this often translates into an extensive recruitment process. From start to finish, our process can take anywhere from one week to 10 business days.

Our hiring team consists of people from the recruiting team, technical teams, project managers and leaders at various levels. The decisions at each stage are made based on your performance in that round.

The final decision however is made by the entire panel of hiring managers who review your application and your performance in the various rounds and come to a conclusion.

Definitely! Irrespective of whether you decide We are not the right fit for you at this time, or you don’t make it through the hiring process, your resume and application is saved with us.

You can up your chances of joining us by subscribing to our job alerts, and applying for your chosen position once it opens up.

Subscribe here!

We recommend going through the DCKAP Website, the DCKAP Careers Microsite, and the Employee Handbook. This will tell you all you need to know about the DCKAP Community.

More Importantly though, we encourage you to unwind before the interview. You’ve got this!

All the best!

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with DCKAP

All Openings

At DCKAP, we value communication. One of our Recruiters will be in touch with you throughout the process, and you will be informed of the final decision 2-3 business days after the final interview.

Once a final decision is made by us, We will give you an Offer Indication Letter that, as the name suggests indicates that we have made you an offer. Your Offer Letter on the other hand will be given to you on your first day of employment.

Absolutely Not! While we would love to have you join us immediately we do understand that there are other factors that come into play.

We believe that individual growth leads to communal growth. You can read more about the growth opportunities offered at DCKAP here.

We believe in showing up for our community as much as our community shows us for us. To know more about the Benefits we offer head over to this link.