Applied online on their website and was promptly reached out to by their recruiter who asked questions about my work experience and said that I'd be receiving a coding assessment as the next step.
Received a Codility coding assessment with 3 coding questions - 1 easy and 2 medium level questions where it was specifically mentioned that the assessment would focus on the correctness and accuracy of the code and not the efficiency/performance. I completed all the questions and submitted it with an hour to spare. Codility gave a correctness score as 100% for each of the challenges, however I received an automated reject response from their recruiter citing better fit. There were no responses to my follow-up emails thereafter from the recruiter.
Why waste a candidate's time by asking them to complete a 3 hour coding assessment - if they didn't find a profile match at all?
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Algorithmic questions with 1 easy and 2 medium level difficulty
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Tempus AI in Jan 2025
Interview
The interview process was
1. Recruiter Screen
2. Video call with the team - Mostly behavioral
3. 3 hour on-site - System Design, Leetcode, Behavioral, and Leadership
All 3 stages were fine. Although after dedicating 5 hours of my time and taking a half a day of PTO for the onsite, I was ignored when I asked for feedback.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
https://leetcode.ca/all/269.html
The alien dictionary leetcode question
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Tempus AI in Apr 2024
Interview
Codily Exam, followed by an on-site. Process was smooth, but then they low ball you on the final offer. I guess they think people will take any offer they throw in this market, but now that their stock price is known, it's much easier to calculate how low this initial offer was. Good interview practice at least.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
Build a coffee shop app with a queue in a system design round
Extremely long 5 round process, even if you arrive to the best solution in the live coding round they will string you along for 2 months before giving you a template rejection email. This is the second time this company has subjected me to a horrendously long interviewing process, I will never apply here again.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tour de france, given an unordered array of tuples representing the legs of a race with the first element being the start city of that leg and the second element being the end city for that leg, write an algorithm that prints each city in order.