I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at X (New York, NY) in May 2015
Interview
Initial phone screen with Recruiter to provide initial information and check culture fit. Second phone call with hiring manager to check technical skills, including a shared online coding session. I felt like I did pretty well but was filtered out for lacking strong technical skills. They appear to have a high bar for technical ability, including a solid understanding of the academic side of programming. Had I passed the second phone screen, I was told the next step would be two different interview panels.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is REST? What is MVC? What is a closure in Javascript? What is the difference between a symbol and a string in Ruby? What is the difference between a block, proc, and lambda in Ruby?
Phone screen, followed by two coding rounds, one system design, and one HM/behavioral round. Prepare with LeetCode tagged questions related to data structures, algorithms, and system design topics. Prepare for Behavioural in STAR method.
Went through two screenings and virtual onsite. Technical team members were friendly and great to speak with. Recruiters were pretty awful - the one that set up the virtual onsite gave everybody different zoom links and trying to find the correct room to join really cut into my interview time and made me stressed out during the VO. Main recruiter scheduled a phone call to discuss results after the VO for when it was past midnight in my timezone but never called or responded to my followup.
To the recruiter: you don't need to try to keep me warm by scheduling a phone call and ghosting me when I only asked you whats the decision timeline. If its rejection just email to let me know instead of wasting more of my time especially when its late in my timezone.
In general this would've been a positive experience if the recruiters weren't so bad.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at X (London, England) in Apr 2025
Interview
Ho effettuato un colloquio conoscitivo con HR dopodiché una sessione di live coding e domande tecniche con il responsabile dell'area. Domande vertevano su vari algoritmi e complessità in termini di tempo e spazio
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Risoluzione di un problema algoritmico che richiedeva l'utilizzo della funzione xor
