I applied through university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Ensighten (San Jose, CA) in Feb 2015
Interview
After giving out my resume at the career fair I had a 30 min phone interview the following week. There were a mix of technical and behavioral questions like any typical phone interview. Later that day, I got an invite for a series of 30 min onsite interviews with one of them being a director. The technical interviews were okay in terms of questions but there just wasn't enough time to cover all of them. If they had that many questions to ask they should have made it 45 min interviews. For example, in one interview I was asked a linked list question, a tree traversal, an sql query, a brain teaser and regular "tell me about yourself" and "what are you interested in doing" questions. Everything was fast paced and there wasn't much time to think and address one particular problem in depth. I felt the pressure and could not think straight on one of the interviews.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
PHONE INTERVIEW: tell me about yourself/projects you have done etc, difference between array and linked list, difference between stack and queue with examples, how to find shortest path in a graph, OOP concepts
ONSITE #2: 1)if you have an employee table with IDs, write a query that captures all employee names with duplicates. One name should not appear twice in the table. This is a self join question.
2) Check if a linked list is circular. Write pseudocode.
3) What is the angle between hour and minute hand on the clock when the time is 3:15? answer is 7.5 degrees
4) You have 3 baskets, one with apples, one with oranges and one with both apples and oranges mixed. Each basket is closed and is labeled with ‘Apples’, ‘Oranges’ and ‘Apples and Oranges’. However, each of these labels is always placed incorrectly. How would you pick only one fruit from a basket to place the labels correctly on all the baskets? there are so many answers to this online so I will let you guys search online
5) How do you traverse through a tree? review BFS and DFS
ONSITE #4: this was with a director and was fully behavioral. You just talk about yourself, your interests and goals etc. Just participate in the conversation and keep nodding to whatever he is blabbering and you will be fine. Make sure to ask a lot of questions!
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Ensighten (San Jose, CA)
Interview
2 Phone screens, a video chat, an online coding test, then an in person interview. The interview process was disjointed, and took longer than necessary. Several days-long delays in the process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a situation where you disagreed with your boss, and how did you resolve it