I applied online. I interviewed at Twilio (Denver, CO) in Dec 2020
Interview
A full 9 hours of calls and questions.
1. An initial phone call with a recruiter asking about skills, experience, and expected comp.
2. A 3 hour hacker rank timed exam with 4 questions, 2 computer science and two practical. Anagram problem, KSub Arrays, and two real world easier problems.
3. If you pass the coding challenge a second call with a recruiter prepping you on "The Twilio Magic" and how they interview. They provide a PDF with details of the STAR method. This is where it becomes really obvious that Twilio is a large company with a large HR team.
4. A "Virtual On Site" that lasts 5 hours. Each session is supposed to be 45 minutes but they all go for an hour.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you are the type of person who locks up while live coding for an audience you will not do well here. These are intense tests. Get your skills up on hacker rank and be prepared for problems that are academic in nature. If you are a generalist Twilio is probably not the place you want to interview.
1. An hour of behavioral and testing practices as well as questions about CI/CD.
2. An architecture exercise using google docs.
3. An hour of live coding. My example was building an LRUCache from scratch in coder pad.
4. An hour with the hiring manager.
5. An hour with a "Bar Raiser" who asks behavioral questions.
I applied online. I interviewed at Twilio (Bengaluru) in Jun 2022
Interview
None of the Interview panel is interested in hiring a good team, they seem to be forced to do this except for the bar-raiser.
Requirements in the interview are not clearly explained, interviewer did not even ask for my summary, did not explain about his experience and the details regarding the round, he was quick to jump to question and answer within the first 3 mins.
With that being said, forget about the help, you are expected to fail and they seem to have made it a point to do so.
I applied online. I interviewed at Twilio (Bengaluru) in Jun 2021
Interview
I have applied for the Senior Software Engineer (L3), Segment Infrastructure role, attended
Segment Infrastructure, Coding Challenge. if you answer all the question correctly then also don't expect any positive update from Twilio, they are running this interviews for time pass.
My personal experience is that it is complete waste of time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
HackerRank Segment Infrastructure, Coding Challenge, got three question and two hours of time to complete.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Twilio (Bengaluru)
Interview
Gave almost 6 rounds including 1 hacker rank and 5 zoom interviews and got rejected. I felt it was simple waste of time, don't know what they are looking for. Please don't take so many rounds if you are not sure and save everyone time
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Array question , tree
API design,
Behavioral question etc