As intense as you want it to be
As intense as you want it to be
Flexible schedule, movement opportunities, learning opportunities, benefits, culture.
Politics, large-scale coordination, underpaid for top-tier companies.
Try to coordinate teams and BUs closely, as internal politics greatly affect product decisions.
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Software Development Engineer III
I had 5 rounds of interviews. Round 1: HackerRank coding challenge. I had to solve 5 programming questions. Round 2: Questions were from Java, Microservices, Data Structures, and Algorithms. Round 3: Questions were from design principles and Big D
Quality Assurance
It was fairly good and well organized. The team was very friendly and interactive. The interview process was smooth and finished the process in a week.
ML/AI Engineer
It was a one-round interview. It was predominantly on data science and large language models. They gave me a repo of an agent framework and asked me to find the code where reward is calculated.
Software Development Engineer III
Banga, IndiaDecember 1, 2018I had 5 rounds of interviews. Round 1: HackerRank coding challenge. I had to solve 5 programming questions. Round 2: Questions were from Java, Microservices, Data Structures, and Algorithms. Round 3: Questions were from design principles and Big D
Quality Assurance
San Jose, California, United StatesNovember 14, 2025It was fairly good and well organized. The team was very friendly and interactive. The interview process was smooth and finished the process in a week.
ML/AI Engineer
San Jose, California, United StatesOctober 24, 2025It was a one-round interview. It was predominantly on data science and large language models. They gave me a repo of an agent framework and asked me to find the code where reward is calculated.
