I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Personal Capital in Nov 2022
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I applied online. I interviewed at Personal Capital in Oct 2020
Interview
Phone screens with recruiter and hiring manager, 2 tech screen paired programming exercises on coderpad and a take home challenge. The company uses older technology: objective-c, no autolayout or interface builder, no CI/CD and some other dated practices that they are not looking to update. A good fit for this company would be someone who enjoys older technology and processes with a lot of oversight and micro-management.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
coderpad: Leetcode problem - shortest distance to string
coderpad: rebuild the allocations view of their app. You can find this by downloading their app and using the demo mode. Open the hamburger menu select holdings and allocations then in the top right select the rectangle button and select allocations. The view you are asked to build is the top view with the rectangles. The function takes in an array of integer allocation values . Place a rect on the view for each value based on the ratio to the sum of all values.
Take home challenge was to build the blog view of their app. This can be found by downloading their app, using demo mode, opening the hamburger menu and selecting daily capital blog. Usual requirements: pull blogs from rss feed, display content, content is styled html, display loading state, etc.
- Recruiter Screening: - General questions about experience & why Personal Capital - Sr. Engineer/ Hiring Manager Tech Screening - General iOS related questions - Showed screens and asked how long i would take to build it. - Seemed nice. - Sr. Engineer/ Hiring Manager Second Tech Screening - Asked Any fav things from this year and last year WWDC. - Stressed on Async Await and uses of it. - Asked to build a collection view in their app(i.e. Daily Capital Blog) in the last 10 minutes. - Went beyond time limit, i have to ask him to stop as i have a conflict. - Asked me if i can finish the home work and ship it. - Director Of Mobile Engineering Tech Screening - ebuild the allocations view of their app. You can find this by downloading their app and using the demo mode. Open the hamburger menu select holdings and allocations then in the top right select the rectangle button and select allocations. The view you are asked to build is the top view with the rectangles. The function takes in an array of integer allocation values . Place a rect on the view for each value based on the ratio to the sum of all values.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Take home challenge was to build the blog view of their app. This can be found by downloading their app, using demo mode, opening the hamburger menu and selecting daily capital blog. Usual requirements: pull blogs from rss feed, display content, content is styled html, display loading state, etc. - Rebuild the allocations view of their app. You can find this by downloading their app and using the demo mode. Open the hamburger menu select holdings and allocations then in the top right select the rectangle button and select allocations. The view you are asked to build is the top view with the rectangles. The function takes in an array of integer allocation values . Place a rect on the view for each value based on the ratio to the sum of all values.
