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Software Developer Interview Experience - United States

February 23, 2015
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Very upfront and technical. No cultural examination, no questions about yourself or your resume (at least for the first round). Simply you are given a puzzle and the interviewer sees how you solve it.

You are given 45 minutes to solve it. Was disappointed that the interviewer didn't even tell me his name when I introduced myself. Spent some time asking about the bounds of the puzzle and processed with an initial bad approach on my own, then I figured out what algorithm this puzzle imposed. You can use either backtracking (not optimal) or depth first search (optimal)

Questions

Given a six sided dice and a board of squares, what is the least possible score that you can obtain from going to point A to point B on the board.

Each turn you will flip the dice in a direction and then add the top facing number on the dice to your existing score.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 51 interview experiences for the athenahealth Software Developer role in United States.

Success Rate

27%
Pass Rate

athenahealth's interview process for their Software Developer roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive47%
Neutral35%
Negative18%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for athenahealth's Software Developer interview process in United States.