Still great for a mid-size tech company
Still great for a mid-size tech company
The company is still growing. There are great engineering challenges and lots of interesting problems to tackle in the fintech space.
As Square grew into a portfolio of products, overall direction is harder to see. That said, this decentralization can also be seen as a strength.
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Overall, Square's interview process was fairly standard. They try to improve upon the process, and in some ways they do, but it ultimately falls short of their goals. For the most part, it comes down to luck (who you get to interview you) and memoriz
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The interviews were, for the most part, straightforward. Two phone interviews involved pair programming. Then, an on-site interview included two more pair programming sessions. The on-site interviews were the same difficulty as the phone interviews
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I was first sent a HackerRank challenge (one hour timed). It asked me to simulate a game, with rules explained, by reading inputs and determining the winner, loser, or tie. I passed 4/6 test cases. The next two interviews were pair programming sessi
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San Francisco, California, United StatesFebruary 1, 2016Overall, Square's interview process was fairly standard. They try to improve upon the process, and in some ways they do, but it ultimately falls short of their goals. For the most part, it comes down to luck (who you get to interview you) and memoriz
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San Francisco, California, United StatesNovember 1, 2015The interviews were, for the most part, straightforward. Two phone interviews involved pair programming. Then, an on-site interview included two more pair programming sessions. The on-site interviews were the same difficulty as the phone interviews
Software Engineer
San Francisco, California, United StatesJanuary 1, 2015I was first sent a HackerRank challenge (one hour timed). It asked me to simulate a game, with rules explained, by reading inputs and determining the winner, loser, or tie. I passed 4/6 test cases. The next two interviews were pair programming sessi
