I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Nautilus Labs (New York, NY) in Jun 2022
Interview
This was the sanest and most decent interview process that I've dealt with. No lengthy take-homes, no irrelevant code reviews, or playing computer science trivia. They were interviews that made sense and they were humane.
First, I started off with a phone screen. This was pretty standard, and I moved on to a 1:1 with the engineering manager.
This was mainly a coding interview that was relevant to their domain and reasonable. We had a good discussion about Nautilus Labs, and I left it feeling optimistic.
Finally, I went on to the final set of interviews. These consisted of a showing of the product, a systems design interview, another coding interview of similar difficulty, and finally a talk with the VP of engineering.
Every person that I encountered was respectful and motivated by the mission. They were smart, thoughtful interviewers. They answered every question I had and were upfront with me 100% of the time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
LeetCode Easy/Medium Questions, Systems Design, Experience-Based Questions
company allowed horizontal movements, and I moved from the deployment team to the engineering team within 6 months. I've helped interview other candidates, and you can expect easy to medium level leetcode questions.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Nautilus Labs
Interview
Three stages: call with recruiter, tech screen with manager, and then final interview consisting of five rounds.
Final interview consisted of product demo, LC medium question, behavior talk with HR rep, web backend system design question, and talk with an engineering manager.
Based on feedback, I think I was made from get go from not having much experience with their tech stack (fair enough, though I'm not sure why they brought me in ), though I also got some rather interesting behavior feedback. This field really needs to stop deluding itself that it can evaluate personality better than a psychology grad student in a controlled lab environment (aka you can't, so please don't try).
But that's every company amirite? Overall well organized and executed better than most interviews I've been through. Hopefully you, the reader-candidate, has better luck on the personality dice roll. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
LeetCode easy, with followups that make it a medium problem. A few Tell Me About a Time questions. Web backend system design question.
