They sent a Hackerrank test and and asked me to complete within 2 days. But the test itself felt like it was not thought out. The question was super unclear, the examples provided did not match the test cases that were used and a lot of assumptions had to be made regarding the missing information. Out of the 6 test cases, after using each to see what the problem was ( failed case ), I had to modify the code but it was so weird because ensuring one test case is satisfied results in the other failing. After the test, I emailed all my assumptions, method of answering, the algorithm used to solve the problem etc. via examples to the recruiter. But no matter how many follow up emails I sent, the recruiter did not reply! Not even once! Really upsetting and disappointed!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Message analysis question to separate words in the message and do further processing
We’re sorry we weren’t able to get back to you in a timely manner. Candidate experience is super important to us. We had an extremely high volume of applicants for our internship program this year and unfortunately weren’t able to respond to everyone within our normal SLAs.
I applied online. I interviewed at Deepgram in Oct 2022
Interview
OA then hour long interview. OA was pretty straightforward, interview had no Leetcode questions and was just covering basic concepts with two engineers, enjoyed talking with them they were pretty nice