I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Block (Pittsburgh, PA) in Jan 2016
Interview
Phone interview 45 mins, asked 1-2 technical algorithm questions and let you choose your preferred language. And asked your thinking process during the programming period. They asked you to implement a bunch of words by scanning the prefixes. Such as Simple, single, solution. And you should print out by sin sun so for the output!
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Other Software Engineer Interview Reviews for Block
Inital take home, followed by extension interview, followed by a coding challenge, followed by system design interview.
The whole process took 3 months!
The interviewers are usually really nice and want you to do your best.
The interviewer was nice, and he is friendly and willing to give hint, the question has 2 follow-ups, it was hard to complete in time. The question was not a typical LeetCode
Phone screen and then a full day of interviews. 3 pair programming challenges, a system design review and a prior experience interview. There was also an onsite lunch with a person from the company.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
To design a hotel booking system. Pick any part (backend, frontend, database, api etc) and deepdive into that, explaining the decisions along the way.
