I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at X (San Francisco, CA) in Nov 2015
Interview
Phone screen with the hiring manager after an internal referral. Quick turnaround; 5 days from submission to interview. I was told by the HR coordinator that this would be a technical phone screen.
Interviewer was oddly distant and aloof during the call. Questions were almost entirely generic; I was prepared to go in-depth technically but interviewer didn't seem to want to hear in-depth answers. Gave no follow-up questions either. It was almost like this person was ticking boxes on a clipboard. Very cold and unhelpful about feedback. Seemed rather put off that none of the software I wrote for employers was publicly available on github. Guess what - most employers don't want their proprietary code out in the wild.
Call was cut off twice toward the end when it was time for me to ask questions; after the second cut-off they simply didn't call me back. No further contact after that from anyone. Very rude.
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Why do you want to work here? Why apply for this position?
The process quite unique compared to other process. it is combination of coding algorithms and understanding the platform. The technical round requires me to build a project from scratch within 45 mins
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asked to solve 2 problems, sudoku challenged and build something similar to spotify playlist
First HR call, seems like a very good match with the position, then 60 mins phone screen interview with a pretty standard leetcode medium question, bug free and had good feedback from the interviewer, then the next day received a moving forward email with no surprise, totally waste of time.
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Standard medium leetcode question(tagged with twitter)
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at X in Aug 2022
Interview
HR screen, standard coding interview. Moved on to the final round. The interviewers could not have been nicer, for the coding or the system design round. The final behavioral management interview was alright as well - they really dig into your past. What annoyed me the most is the recruiter ghosting me. I understand not getting the role, some explanation of why or closing out the loop seems the least courteous thing someone could do. I do not like the whole "let's prep you for the final round of interviews, and make a great candidate experience" schtick, and then proceed to ghost the candidate. Really, a large pool of candidates is fantastic for the company, but I would not imagine anybody would like to simply be left in the dark after preparing for weeks and weeks to hear nothing. Super disappointed more than anything.
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NDA - But Leetcode is a really great prep resource.