I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Couchbase (Mountain View, CA) in Jan 2018
Interview
Applied online. No phone. First screening also needs to be onsite. Then onsite with 5-6 engineers. Questions were medium to tough difficulty. Since it was for their Full Text search team some questions were related to DS used for it. One dynamic programming question. One synchronization problem.
Was informed after few weeks got standard email for not selecting. Asked for feedback/reason but no reply. Felt like waste of time after hearing no feedback.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1) DS for storing words hangman problem (fast retrieval of words) 2) locking mechanism for exclusive writing to file and lockless reading from it. 3) in matrix of 1-0's find biggest sub-matrix with all 1' 4) Reverse words in statement 5) Implement semaphore
Phone screen with recruiter followed by a virtual on-site of about six technical interviews done over Zoom. Not much behavioral questions. Most of the tech interviews were derived from problems related to the job opening. One of these was a larger-scale design and coding effort that lasted longer. One was easy to medium Leetcode type questions. Coding done on Google Docs so no compilation.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design and implement some APIs for an efficient way to store and retrieve data in memory, including for range scans.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Couchbase in Jan 2022
Interview
Was told 5 rounds in total. All rounds are elimination
was eliminated at this stage. felt round1 was a negative. did not get feedback from the recruiter. just a generic rejection email.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
round1: concurrency/multithreading (given a large file, perform operations in parallel on each line within that file) think producer-consumer type problem
round2: ds/algo. lc medium/easy
I applied online. I interviewed at Couchbase (Bengaluru) in Nov 2021
Interview
Interviewed for eventing team.
Two online interviews.
Easy data structure questions.
I came across incompetent interviewer during interviews .I think couch base should raise bar of their interviewers.
For me it was waste of time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Easy data structure questions with multithreading.
