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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Irvine, California

July 1, 2013
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I submitted my resume online and received contact for a phone interview a couple of days later.

The first phone interview went pretty well, aside from a rescheduling issue.

The questions were quite easy: a self-introduction, past projects, and one freshman-level programming question.

Another phone interview was scheduled for the following day.

The second interview was with a developer. We dove into two programming questions directly, and I solved them without any problem.

However, I received a rejection email a couple of days later without any reason.

Since I solved all programming questions very well, I guess there can only be two reasons:

  • I haven't taken any courses on Coursera.
  • I'm not from an "awesome private university." (Since almost everyone on Coursera is from Stanford, you can actually feel scornful.)

One thing that really makes me uncomfortable is that the rejection email was sent from "nonreply@jobvite.com." Seriously?

Their recruiter is hesitant to send an email from their own account. I don't think that is a proper thing to do unless you reject me at the very first without giving me the interviews.

Questions

Nothing difficult at all. A freshman can crash the problems.

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