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      Principal Javascript Engineer, Mobile Interview

      1 Dec 2022
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Cambridge, MA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at CarGurus (Cambridge, MA) in Nov 2022

      Interview

      I was contacted by a recruiter from CarGurus on Hired.com. First round was a Reactjs coding round on an online IDE. Second round was 5 hours spread over 2 days with 5 different people(1hr each). The recruiter and interviewers were friendly and easy to talk to throughout the interview process. However, the feedback I got after the process was vague and unhelpful. Something like "Nothing that you did wrong, but they are just moving forward with other candidate". I completed all the coding rounds with time to spare for follow up questions. Interviewer in the first hour of second round could not frame here follow up questions clearly or did not bother rewording them so I can understand what is she looking for. She kept asking the same thing a few times and when I explained alternate approaches and asked if I should modify my code each time she asked me not change it since I have something working. I was also informed that I am being considered for a few different positions by the hiring manager in my last interview but no follow up on that either. Overall the interview process was smooth and the interviewers as well as recruiters were helpful but not even providing 5 mins of meaningful actionable feedback after 6 hours of interview feels disrespectful of candidates' time

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Round 1- The first round was a Reactjs coding round where I had to render a list of text headings from a JSON API input. Then make each item clickable to display/ hide a subtext after clicking on headings. Lastly, keep and display a count of text items clicked. Round 2- First hour(1/5) was again React coding round, where you are given a UI component for empty and occupied parking spot and you have to reuse the UI components to render a parking lot. Then make the parking spot clickable to park/ unpark a car in spot. Lastly, each parking spot has a cost associated with it which we had to add and display based on number of cars parked in the lot Second hour(2/5) - Plain javascript coding with easy array based algorithmic question. Third Hour(3/5) - Review their mobile app and make suggestion on how to improve/ test it. Fourth Hour(4/5) - Design their mobile app from scratch. What libraries will you use. How will you divide work among team. How will you design data store. What APIs will be required to display the search result page. Fifth Hour(5/5) - Behavioral with Hiring manager. What are you looking to achieve/ learn in your next role?
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