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Software Engineer New Grad Interview Experience

February 5, 2016
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Extremely unprofessional. I scheduled a first-round telephone interview, and the interviewer never called.

I tried to get in contact with the company and my recruiter, but there was no phone number for my recruiter or any publicly available phone number for the company. I ended up having to email while waiting by the phone, like an idiot.

Eventually, I got a reply saying that my interviewer had a site outage to deal with. Letting me know that the interview had to be rescheduled would have taken less than a minute.

Finally, I got an interview scheduled, and the interviewer ruled me out in the first couple of minutes after I asked for some time to think through the question. He ended up just telling me the answer every time I paused to think through something. I guess he just wanted to get the interview over with. After 10 minutes, I felt the same way.

I got rejected. No problem. As far as I'm concerned, I dodged a bullet.

I was asked a LeetCode question that was of "Hard" difficulty.

Questions

LeetCode question of Hard difficulty.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 13 interview experiences for the Block Software Engineer New Grad role in United States.

Success Rate

46%
Pass Rate

Block's interview process for their Software Engineer New Grad roles in the United States is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive69%
Neutral0%
Negative31%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Block's Software Engineer New Grad interview process in United States.

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