Metromile Senior Software Engineer interview questions

A recruiter approached in LinkedIn & started with phone interview. Recruiter Interview : Went over my experiences in the resume , he provided good information about the opportunity, project & the company. He was very professional & even took my availability for next rounds in that call itself. I have next round with Hiring manager: Went over my experiences in the resume , he provided good information about the opportunity, project & the company. Asked if I was interested in working on multiple teams & also managing & training team members. He told more about the teams & how they work. I asked for what the expectations from the role & what is the project this role is open for? He told more about how he want to grow the teams & future planning for the apps they were working on.The answers I got , It was little confusing for me If hiring manager had a clarity on the expectations of the role. Followed by Technical Round in following week: Intros, Question about my experience in detailed, daily duties, FE or BE preference. Coding Exercise in coder pad : Count the number of occurrences of a word in a book? Follow up questions for the code written, Write edge cases to test the use case , what kind of exceptions will the code have, how will you handle the exceptions, What other data structures or ways can be used to solve this problem ? I was able to solve the problem & also listed out 3 edge cases, exception handling cases & other ways. I felt the person who interviewed me was kind of adamant & she was looking for more than I could think of then. Overall I didn't feel comfortable with the way the interviewer was repeatedly asking me for what she is expecting. The prior 2 rounds were good but this round was not ok. After 3-4 days I received a reject email. That was expected. From the above conversations I think this company has start up culture & they still don't have all the plans structures & expectations for the roles. The JD they have & the expectation from the s/w is very high. It lacks clarity.

The standard HR screen & chat with an engineer. They were really honest and did a great job of selling the company and the product. I did get another offer before the next stage, but it seems like they had a great team working on the mobile platform. Seems like engineers are given a lot of autonomy to improve the product that brings value. Highly recommend the interview process