I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at DigitalOcean (New York, NY) in Jul 2018
Interview
The interview process was casual, and ranged from specifically technical to largely abstract questions. There were process and collaboration oriented questions, as well as a coding interview. For the coding interview, perhaps because I was in the midst of other interview processes that were more explicit about the parameters of the coding interview, I wound up making assumptions about what was permissible and what was not permissible that impacted my performance. In hindsight, I should have asked more questions about what is allowed, however, questions such as these can also cast a light on a candidate, so many such as myself will tend to not ask them. Therefore, the coding interview could have had more details provided beforehand about the structure and expectations of the interview (eg, can documentation be consulted during the interview, should the environment be a vanilla dev environment, or should you use all your usual tooling, etc).
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
How do I view the use of patterns in software design/development.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at DigitalOcean in Apr 2025
Interview
1st round basic Medium graph question from leetcode(can be done using topological sort) trees/arrays/graphs are important
2nd round LLD (Facebook friend request sending api design)
3rd round managerial
Offer released
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1st round basic Medium graph question from leetcode(can be done using topological sort) trees/arrays/graphs are important
6 Rounds total, with one recruiter screen and 5 technical conversation style (no coding interview) interviews. No behavioral or system-design, which was expected for this role. Everybody was very friendly and knowledgeable. The recruiter was pleasant and helpful.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at DigitalOcean (Hyderābād) in Jan 2025
Interview
Interview went well they asked questions based on the resume. However after interviewer failed to communicate what was interviewed. I said things outside resume as it felt like he was talking about others resume.