I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Clearwater Analytics (CWAN) (Boise, ID) in Sep 2012
Interview
I ran into Clearwater at my school's career fair. I'd never heard of them before. After talking with them for a few minutes, they asked me if I'd like to do an on-campus interview the next day. I did. The first interview was with two very friendly guys. They showed me some really messed up Java code and asked me to identify what was wrong with it (a lot.) Then they asked me a math problem. If you can bike 20 mph uphill and 30mph downhill, and you have 1 hour to bike, how far or how long should you ride uphill before turning back. I struggled a little bit here even though this is an easy question, and they were nice about it and helped me out. Finally, they asked me to write a method in java that determines if an int is prime and returns true or false. I was able to solve this one quickly and with a solution that was at least a little bit better than the naive solution (I eliminated multiples of 2).
The second interview was a phone interview, a few weeks later. They asked me to write a method to calculate the nth fibonnacci number, and also one that takes an array of ints and returns an array of only the ones that do not repeat. Unfortunately for me, I got interview anxiety and as a result took a very long time to write the fibonnacci method.
I got an email back a few days later saying they were pursuing other candidates.
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Other Intern Interview Reviews for Clearwater Analytics (CWAN)
I applied online. I interviewed at Clearwater Analytics (CWAN)
Interview
Lots of math questions, logic questions. They challenged my answers and thought processes. It was intense, but I didn't mind given I've been used to challenging situations through presentations, athletics, etc. I can see how some people would be intimidated but they are trying to challenge your thought process and see if you can defend your logic.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They challenged my thought process a few times. I'd rather not give specific questions.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Clearwater Analytics (CWAN) (Rexburg, ID) in Oct 2016
Interview
I approached them at a career fair and set up an interview for the next day with a 30 minute time frame. They asked a series of 4 questions, mostly logic and code-knowledge questions. I don't think I did very well, and when I asked for feedback he said he wasn't allowed to give feedback.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
A companies stock is worth $200. When the companies stock goes down in one day, it goes down by $3. When it goes up in one day, it goes up 2$. After 40 days, the stock is still worth $200. How many days did the stock go down, and how many days did the stock go up?
Write a function that accepts a List of employee hours, a budget, and salary. The function should return true if the payment needed to go out to the employees is under budget, and false if it is above budget. Assume that the salary is the same for all employees, and remember if an employee has worked over 40 hours, each hour over 40 is 1.5x pay.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Clearwater Analytics (CWAN) (Boise, ID) in Nov 2015
Interview
The company sent a link to an online coding test with multiple problems. It was in Javascript. The problems consisted of debugging questions where I was asked to provide code that would break various functions. Then I was asked to fix the functions. Rinse and repeat. I had 20 minutes to complete as many questions as I could.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked questions at least one question with hashmaps.