The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Pocket Gems (San Francisco, CA) in Oct 2011
Interview
I talked to a bunch of people on the phone. The recruiting team was very friendly and welcoming. I had a couple very hard phone screens before I came onsite. The team on site was really cool and we talked about what it is like to live in San Francisco. The interview questions were all technical and they all focused on engineering challenges of scaling a mobile engineering business. There was a lot of talk about good engineering principle and good design principle and how to ship quality software.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
Assume you have a method isSubstring which checks if one word is a substring of another word. Given two strings, use only the isSubstring method to check if one string is a rotation of another string. (i.e. "waterbottle" is a rotation of "erbottlewat".)
Give the data structures for a linked list. Write the code to add and delete a node from a linked list.
Write the code to remove duplicates from a linked list.
I received an email from an HR after participating in an online competition. The first round was an online coding interview with an engineer from their team. I did not go beyond the telephonic round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find the lowest common ancestor in a binary search tree.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Pocket Gems in Mar 2022
Interview
OA with 2 medium problems & a code review, 1-hour 1st round technical interview followed by 3 consecutive 1-hour technical interviews.
The interviewers were all super nice. They were willing to work together towards a solution when I needed some subtle hints. They were very polite, engaged and eager to chat.
Got the offer pretty shortly after my last interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Medium leetcode questions, graphs & hashmaps are your friends.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Pocket Gems in Nov 2021
Interview
I was given a Hackerrank to complete after a few weeks of waiting for a response. Just some common leetcode style questions in hackerranks. I didn't do so well though so received the rejection email a few days later.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Hackerrank questions I don't really remember specifics.
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