I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Couchbase (Mountain View, CA) in Dec 2016
Interview
On-site interview with the hiring manager, followed by an all-day interview with five other developers. All the interview questions (including the manager, CTO, VP, etc.) were technical in nature. All the interviewers were open and answered questions about the company and environment.
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
Two of the interviewers asked string-parsing questions. One was a fairly standard C coding questions about reversing the order of the words in a sentence. Another was about parsing a list/stream of strings being received over the network, which also involved a little bit of design about the protocol for encoding of the strings over-the-wire.
Another question was an interesting pseudocode question about a particular hybrid linked-list/tree data-structure. First, a direct request to write pseudocode (or whichever language is preferred) to flatten the structure into a "normal" linked list, and then a follow-up question about options to retain the non-flattened structure at the same time.
One interviewer asked a fairly broad design question, basically about designing a memory-manager with support for paging to disk, and then narrowed the scope of the question as I talked about and whiteboarded alternatives for implementing it.
Phone screen with recruiter followed by a virtual on-site of about six technical interviews done over Zoom. Not much behavioral questions. Most of the tech interviews were derived from problems related to the job opening. One of these was a larger-scale design and coding effort that lasted longer. One was easy to medium Leetcode type questions. Coding done on Google Docs so no compilation.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design and implement some APIs for an efficient way to store and retrieve data in memory, including for range scans.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Couchbase in Jan 2022
Interview
Was told 5 rounds in total. All rounds are elimination
was eliminated at this stage. felt round1 was a negative. did not get feedback from the recruiter. just a generic rejection email.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
round1: concurrency/multithreading (given a large file, perform operations in parallel on each line within that file) think producer-consumer type problem
round2: ds/algo. lc medium/easy
I applied online. I interviewed at Couchbase (Bengaluru) in Nov 2021
Interview
Interviewed for eventing team.
Two online interviews.
Easy data structure questions.
I came across incompetent interviewer during interviews .I think couch base should raise bar of their interviewers.
For me it was waste of time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Easy data structure questions with multithreading.
