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Software Development Engineer (Graduate) Interview Experience - Cape Town, South Africa

July 1, 2022
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Process

Applied in July and went through a 3-stage process:

1st stage: 20-minute call with a recruiter, covering basic OOP and data structure questions.

2nd stage: 1-hour phone interview, including 3 leadership principle questions, followed by a technical coding question (two if you finish the first one quickly).

3rd stage: 3-hour interview, consisting of 3 back-to-back 1-hour interviews similar to the phone screen, except the first interview is with a hiring manager and includes no technical questions.

Questions

1hr phone interview:

  • Tell me about a time you helped a struggling team member.
  • Tell me about a time you had to learn something new.
  • Given a string, find the first unique character (non-repeating character).
  • Given a binary tree, return true/false if it is a BST.

3hr interview:

  • More "tell me about a time..." questions.
  • Given two words, return true/false if they are anagrams of each other.
  • Merge two sorted lists and remove duplicates.

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