Process
Absolutely the worst interview experience. The recruiter never replied to a single email during or after the process. All my queries about the interview structure and what to expect were ignored.
Had two 1-hour long pair programming interviews. The first interviewer was really nice and it felt like a pair programming exercise. He explained the input and expected output and nudged me in the right direction.
The second interviewer felt like he wanted to be anywhere else except conducting the interview. He just gave me a question without any explanation whatsoever and didn't care to tell me that there were spaces in the given string. I wasted precious time debugging the output just because he didn't want to mention the format of the input string and wanted me to manually go over the string to see for myself that there could be spaces. He also had his mind set on expecting a certain kind of implementation, when in fact the problem could be approached in multiple ways.
I like the company's product, but the disastrous interview experience will probably keep me from applying there again.
Questions
String manipulation, graph traversal, implementation style questions.
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Success Rate
Block's interview process for their Embedded Software Intern roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
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Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Block's Embedded Software Intern interview process in United States.
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