I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Twilio in Jun 2021
Interview
This differed slightly from the typical interview process at most places, with a manager interview first, then straight to a virtual onsite with:
- 1 technical interview
- 1 design interview
- 3(!) behavioural interviews with a PM, peer SWE, and manager, so you better have stories from your past the align well with their values
After forcing me to spend 3 days on the interviews, they ghosted me for the interview results, but as if they were trying to rub salt on the wound, the recruiter who initially reached out sent out another email for the exact same position! Shows how disorganized and impersonal their recruiting efforts are.
I was given a take-home coding exercise, which was quite a bit more hefty than most others I've had. Sent a link to the public repo a few days later. The following week, the recruiter asked me to send the link I already sent. When I followed up the next week, I found that the recruiter's email bounced - they were no longer with the company. So I then emailed a higher-up, who passed me along to another recruiter, who I then sent my exercise to yet again. A rejection followed soon after with no feedback.
Phone screen and onsite with a few leetcode and system design questions. The overall process was professional and the recruiters did a good job of keeping me up to date.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement an LRU Cache with some existing boilerplate code
I applied online. I interviewed at Twilio (Dublin, Dublin)
Interview
Very friendly talent acquisition staff member, was given plenty of info for technical test, including what concepts would be asked. Had to do a systems design interview also and was given enough to prep for that.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Programming question about traversing graphs, systems design question about a photo printing service