3 rounds of interviews. All coding and not much discussion on technical skills, behavioral skills, or my resume. All virtual interviews via zoom. 1) leetcode easy 2) leetcode easy/medium 3) leetcode hard
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1) List of monthly stock prices (list of ints), given an interval size k, determine the number of intervals that are strictly increasing 2) Given a Map of employee id's and the id's of employees that directly report to them. Given a specific employee id, come up with their employee score: number of direct and indirect employees + themselves. 3) zigzag binary tree traversal
Process was fairly smooth. Recruiter seemed to put a lot of effort into making sure I was comfortable. The responses from their end were prompt and made sure to address my concerns.
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Question 1
Why do you believe you deserve this position over other candidates?
I applied online. I interviewed at Qualtrics (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2021
Interview
4 total interviews:
3 Technical Interviews with Software Engineers
1 Behavioral AND Technical Interview with a Hiring Manager
I had a really good experience with each of my purely technical interviews. They just asked HackerRank Medium Problems and then left some time at the end to ask questions about them and the company.
My last interview was with a hiring manager. I was led to believe that this would just be a behavioral interview and was surprised when halfway through, the hiring manager asked a difficult technical question and tried to have me solve it in HackerRank. This change already threw me off, but it was made worse by the fact that the manager I interviewed with was extremely unprofessional. The entire time we were speaking, he seemed very disinterested and at times condescending. He additionally had loud notifications going off on his computer and phone the entire time I was doing the coding part of the interview, which was very distracting.
Qualtrics has potential candidates fill out a survey partway through the interview process (they had me fill mine out after the second technical interview) to better understand how they can improve their interview process. This should really be done after all of the interviews are complete, I wouldn't have given them as high a score if I knew how unprofessional my last interview was going to be.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Data structure and algorithm questions (mine included list and string manipulation, hash tables, and tree traversal).