I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Applied Intuition
Interview
Applied’s interview process was both very rigorous and very human. I could tell they have a high bar for people who are not only intellectually sharp but also collaborative and customer-focused. Their culture really came through in the process, it’s clear they actually operate based on their company values and make decisions based on those tradeoffs. Clearly a fantastic company with a strong business.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I don’t want to give away the actual questions for fairness, but these were case-study-based questions designed to test how you’d actually function in the job.
It's like the recruiter tries to make it hard for you as compared to being supportive - mine was deliberately cryptic and asked me to prepare for a product sense round and in the interview they did not do product sense but asked a random pricing question. Interviewer was late coming to the interview and did not leave space for any questions I could ask.
I interviewed at Applied Intuition (Mountain View, CA)
Interview
First round was with recruiter and then was asked to create requirements doc in video interview. People are nice. They work 50 hrs and take off shoes in office. Cofounders were on a podcast.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Applied Intuition in Mar 2024
Interview
A couple of virtual interview rounds followed by multi-round onsite interviews. The recruiter was really helpful and gave feedback throughout the process.
The onsites were a mix of casing and a very bizarre culture fit/ behavioral round with some of their senior engineering and product team managers. In the behavioral, I was asked about all my major decision-making throughout my education and career. Some were regarding decisions I made over a decade ago, including questions like what colleges I applied to, got into, how I chose the college I attended, etc.
Apart from the in-person behavioral round, the process was straightforward (product cases) but challenging. There is an emphasis on technical depth and speed/clarity of responses.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Case: drawing wireframes, prioritization
Behavioral: What colleges did you apply to? What colleges did you get into?