I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Sprout Social (Chicago, IL) in Jan 2021
Interview
1st round coding challenging on Hackerrank, 2 hours time limit. Once passed you'd go to a screening round with the recruiter. Sprout Social has fine tuned their recruiting pipeline and their recruiters are among the best that I've ever worked with. The last round consists of a panel interview with 3 rounds, each round 2 engineers will ask you questions about coding/behavioral.
Eventually, you will talk to the director of engineer for final screen.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q. Describe a time where you had to make a tough decision.
Q. Algorithm question: given a text file, return the top 5 most frequently seen words
Easy leetcode questions, overcomplicated system design question for a junior position. The hr interviewer was very nice. Leetcode questions were two of easy difficulty, and one of medium, basic array type questions
The interview process at Sprout was unnecessarily long, with 5 or 6 rounds. It felt exhausting, repetitive, and time-consuming. Could definitely be more efficient. I expected a faster and more streamlined experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One of the interview questions was an unexpectedly abstract and complex system design scenario, which felt quite unusual and overly advanced for a junior-level position.
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Sprout Social in Nov 2024
Interview
Extremely unprofessional. Not once would they respond to my emails throughout the interview process. The only emails I got were clearly copied and pasted. The actual interviews weren't bad, the technical round was pretty easy and the people I talked to were nice. The final round also went pretty well and was pretty casual. The recruiters on the other hand were very unprofessional. They told me they'd let me know early the week after my final interview if I got the job. It ended up taking them over a month after my interview to reject me. During this time, I sent numerous follow up emails and got no response.
