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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Tokyo

December 1, 2020
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Started off by getting a presentation of the company and the background of the interviewer. After that, I was asked to present myself. I did that, and then we went on to diving a little deeper into my experience.

At a certain point, the interviewer informed me that we were late for the coding part and that we only had 15 minutes, so he wanted to move on to that part. That's where things went south.

I was presented with a fairly easy problem. I took some time to talk about the solution and was rushed to write the code. I tried explaining why I did something while writing, but I was basically ignored by the interviewer. Halfway through my implementation, the interviewer told me that I should finish it in a couple of minutes, but that he understood the approach and it was actually fine for him.

I tried to finish it, but the interviewer just cut me off, telling me, "Well, I have to go now. If you want to finish the implementation by yourself, it's okay, but you don't need to." He closed the communication after we said our farewells.

I completed the algorithm and tested it out because I like to see stuff completed.

One day later, I got a call with the recruiter, who told me that the interviewer had reported that my software engineering skills were not good enough and that my code was not really maintainable or debuggable, without providing any additional information. I didn't complain because I know how this stuff goes and, basically, I wouldn't get extra info out of it, but I think this was a very unprofessional way of handling the interview.

Questions

Pretty easy 2D matrix, LeetCode-like question. (I don't think I can say more than this)

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Applied Intuition's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Tokyo is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Applied Intuition's Software Engineer interview process in Tokyo.

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