I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at ThousandEyes (San Francisco, CA) in Feb 2019
Interview
The overall process was fast. Any delay was due to my unavailability, otherwise, TE was moving fast at every step. The first round was technical phone screening where we had a 30-minute discussion followed by a 20-minute coding exercise and a 10 minute Q&A session.
After the first round of the phone screen, I received an email next day asking for my onsite availability. When I reach onsite in their San Francisco office, it was a wonderful experience. Instead of throwing me in an isolated dark room for investigation (I observe few companies literally do that), the first thing they did was that they gave me a welcome tour of their office. By seeing the locations of various teams, you can actually visualize yourself working at one of those places. That helps in calming down the initial nerves. I was interviewed by 4 different people(2 codings + 2 designing). All of them were super calm and have a big smile on their face. The problems which were given were decent. They were not easy problems, but the interviewers were not just asking the questions but were engaging me with the problems.
I also had a 1-hour lunch window in which around 7-8 people had lunch with me. All of them were really nice and friendly. At the end of my interview, they gave me a nice thousand-eyes card with thank you note from the manager. I was super excited about the company after my interview. Overall, It was one of the best interview experience I had. Due to this experience, I chose thousand-eyes out of 2 other competitive offers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
2 round of coding(Data Structure + Algo) and 2 round of Design in the first phase + 2 round of coding in the 2nd phase.
Had 5 rounds
- DSA - Medium
- System design - PasteBin
- Language-specific coding
- DSA - Medium
- Hiring manager interview
Asked questions about threads, concurrency and algorithms.
Long confusing process that conflicted with prep materials I got.
Recruiter tells me I can go for several roles. The interviewers did not know this. Questions I asked were not really answered.
Screen: I thought I failed because the question was super long and interviewer kept interrupting me. Asked weird questions about tech I hardly used. I don't think my solution even worked because he was confusing, no idea how I got the onsite...
Onsite 1: Interviewer was not a good communicator, so I probably wouldn't have accepted an offer. Since he would have been a teammate.
Onsite 2: Technical difficulties so went 30 min over. Guy was nice but typically I have a ton of interviews, luckily was safe that day.
Onsite 3: Asked a lot of weird theory questions. Then if I asked him to remind me how xyz worked in Java, he didn't help.
Only 1 person was from the teams I was interviewing for.
I would not interview with this company again.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Screen: Super long question with over 100 lines of text.
Onsite 1: Design our product.
Onsite 2: use a custom tree to solve
Onsite 3: leetcode company tagged question
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at ThousandEyes in Mar 2025
Interview
1. prescribing with HR
2. 1st coding interview. I think it's pre-check.
3. Virtual Onsite interview:
- system design
- coding
- code review
- hiring manager + team fit
I passed all interview steps, and got 'template response' with "we already made an offer to another candidate"...
Highly do not recommend interviewing with this 'company'. It is waste of time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1 - leetcode medium
2 - leetcode medium
3 - design our system
4 - review very strange code
5 - weird manager Joe interview.