I applied online. I interviewed at IXL Learning (Raleigh, NC) in Aug 2017
Interview
Standard initial phone interview with basic behavioral and background questions. After that I was given an online assessment test on HackerRank consisting of 4 questions in 90 minutes. The questions themselves weren't too challenging but given the time limit, it was definitely a rush to answer and properly test all of them. I won't reveal the specific questions, but I did find some of them to be strange. One of them required knowing a somewhat obscure and specific mathematical algorithm to solve efficiently. I did not know it and gave a sub-optimal answer. In general, I find that using an OAT is a sub-par way to conduct an initial screen. People can quite easily use Google to answer the questions or learn the algorithms, which puts the ones taking the test honestly at a disadvantage.
Given my experience, and the many other similar reviews posted here, I would advise IXL to rethink their interview process. It sounds like a great company, but interview process was definitely unusual.
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Other Software Engineer Interview Reviews for IXL Learning
Lengthy interview process with a super day at the end. 4 OAs to complete, all of these being quite easy. Then you move on to a technical round which you can solve if you practice enough leetcode hards. Final round is 3 technical interviews and a behavioral. I recommend reviewing priority queues.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked me about my resume and about one specific project that I worked on and what I learned.
Leetcode question live with a engineer that was related to data structures and algorithms. around 30 minutes. On zoom. They gave special link to do the exam on and they told you question and let you run it .
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leetcode questions similar to medium/hard level (stuff with hash maps)
There are multiple rounds. Starts with a phone call with a recruiter. After that, there is a technical round with an engineer, Then after that, it was three back to back technical rounds in the same day.