I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at EvolutionIQ
Interview
I had a 45-minute interview scheduled with the recruiter. The first part of the conversation was mostly about my background, experience, and the role I was applying for. The recruiter asked about my previous projects, technical skills, and how my experience aligned with the position.
Just when I thought we were wrapping up, they threw in a coding question at the end—definitely a curveball! It wasn’t something I was expecting in a recruiter screen, so it caught me a bit off guard. The problem itself wasn’t too complex but required some quick thinking.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Didn't expect coding question during the screening round. Recruiter asked disjoint set question.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at EvolutionIQ
Interview
The first step was the recruiter screen, which included a fast 15 min coding problem. Then came coding rounds with engineers. The problems I received involved using dicts, recursion, arrays. For some reason I was given a lot of React problems. Maybe they saw I used to do a lot of UI and meant to make it easy, but I had been only practicing LC and system design since I'm interviewing with OpenAI. From Q&A it sounded like they did >= 80% frontend so it could be that interview panel.
I had a recruiter screen with a live coding challenge (LeetCode easy level) and an interview with the hiring manager.
HM looked bored. He read me three questions, I answered them, and offered, "I also had to solve challenge X while doing Y, we can dive deeper into that if you want".
No follow-up questions have been asked. Not even acknowledgment of an answer, like "ok, sounds good". The guy just kept reading.
10 minutes into a 30-minute interview, he said, "If you don't have questions for me, we can end it here".
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Standard behavioral questions: Hardest tech challenge you solved, conflict with a coworker, etc.
