I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at VoiceBase (San Francisco, CA) in May 2020
Interview
I applied online. I received a response back asking me to answer a few questions through email. I sent the answers back and received a phone interview invite. Had a 30 minute interview and the interviewer said the next step was having me talk to other engineers. After a week without a followup from VoiceBase, I sent an email inquiring when the next interview would be set up and never received a reply.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at VoiceBase (San Francisco, CA) in Mar 2017
Interview
I really enjoyed my interview with the VoiceBase software engineering team. My interview panel was a mix of experienced engineers and seasoned product managers. We talked about architecture/design patterns, 'gotchas' of using several specific software frameworks, practical challenges scaling and evolving distributed data processing systems, RESTful API design and implementation etc. All of the interviewers showed a genuine interest in my past experience. One of the 1-hr sessions was dedicated to solving an interesting distributed computing problem, starting from a simple local-memory version and adding more and more depth to it incrementally, touching most of the fundamentals of modern distributed computing. Finally, I got a chance to talk to the VP of Engineering - and I was impressed by his technical vision for the emerging 'Big Voice' industry and the VoiceBase strategy.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement an algorithm to minimize a sum of two variables over a large distributed collection of floating values
