Hortonworks Software Engineer interview questions

Extremely poor interview process. 1. First round of interview was with a member of the Zepplin team. it went well. he showed the demo of the product. I got through 2. General problem solving round with a member of the Zepplin team. asked to solve a code on Collabedit. The interviewer was impressed by the working solution. he asked how HDFS is implemented, this is something i did not have experience in but tried to work out the solution. at this point i was told that i will be having 3 MORE rounds of interview only 3. onsite F2F interviews with the GM, engineering manager and a senior developer. all 3 rounds were good, was asked design questions and general distributed system problems. was able to do well and clear the rounds. they said after the interview that i will be having another round with the hiring manager from US. on a monday. but the next day i was told that there will be additional round of interview. so totally 2 more rounds(monday and tuesday) 4. the 6th and the 7th round were both technical and was asked algorithm questions. was able to answer them and get past this round. i was told by the interviewer that they will let me know the numbers by the end of the week. I had couple of WELL PAYING offers already in hand but since i was interested in Hortonworks, i decided to wait. but the other offers expired within the next 3 days 5. No response in that week i decided to call the next week and they asked me for one more week saying they are evaluating 2 more candidates. i decided to wait still. post that week, i had to call them and they said zepplin does not have opening anymore for software developer and asked me to take two more rounds of interview with the YARN team. i was frustrated with this already. but still i decided to take it up and did make it through the rounds, it was onsite and i was asked an algorithm question, a design question, a couple CSS issue, product design and UX, in the actual product related to the yarn data OS ui. i was told again i will be informed in a week's time but was never contacted and i had to contact and ask them. They yet again asked for more time and a deadline was given. This time also i was not contacted and my frustration had deepened. I called them one final time and they said we are not doing recruitment anymore. This is extremely unprofessional and unethical. Interviewing is a very draining task and upon this the frustration causes pain. I expect the management to take this seriously and fix the process. It is always very good to say an early no than to make a candidate wait and lose other opportunities. be professional and considerate.

Hiring manager contacted me first. Then they checked for matching teams. Once they found a match I interviewed with the corresponding team. The requirement was for big data and the interview was mostly system level. Lot of architecture questions were asked along with algorithm questions. There were overall 5 interviews.