I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at X (San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2019
Interview
Talk with recruiter -> hiring manager -> first technical phone interview
The question was pretty simple, implement two functions read() write() and optimize for reading.
Involves some nested hashmaps (at least that's the solution I came up with).
The interviewer asked some follow up questions on what might happen if the write is massive so we cannot store the writes in some variable in memory.
Interviewer seems satisfied with all of my implementations & answers since each time I gave an answer, I make sure that the interviewer understands and agrees with the approach.
We ended up running out of questions to ask while there are still 15 minutes left. So I asked some random questions on twitter tech stack.
Got a rejection the next morning - really confused, recruiter would not give feedbacks. Easy interview overall, really curious what happened.
The process quite unique compared to other process. it is combination of coding algorithms and understanding the platform. The technical round requires me to build a project from scratch within 45 mins
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
asked to solve 2 problems, sudoku challenged and build something similar to spotify playlist
First HR call, seems like a very good match with the position, then 60 mins phone screen interview with a pretty standard leetcode medium question, bug free and had good feedback from the interviewer, then the next day received a moving forward email with no surprise, totally waste of time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Standard medium leetcode question(tagged with twitter)
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at X in Aug 2022
Interview
HR screen, standard coding interview. Moved on to the final round. The interviewers could not have been nicer, for the coding or the system design round. The final behavioral management interview was alright as well - they really dig into your past. What annoyed me the most is the recruiter ghosting me. I understand not getting the role, some explanation of why or closing out the loop seems the least courteous thing someone could do. I do not like the whole "let's prep you for the final round of interviews, and make a great candidate experience" schtick, and then proceed to ghost the candidate. Really, a large pool of candidates is fantastic for the company, but I would not imagine anybody would like to simply be left in the dark after preparing for weeks and weeks to hear nothing. Super disappointed more than anything.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
NDA - But Leetcode is a really great prep resource.
