CrowdStrike

Senior Engineer Interview Experience - United States

October 1, 2022

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

A standard several-hour tech interview can include a half-day coding exercise and about four hours of interviews.

And then, nothing.

You get used to being ghosted after a single recruiter call, but after multiple interviews, in some cases discussing mutual colleagues or friends? That's not just a little bit rude.

Questions

The coding question was a straightforward interpreter.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the CrowdStrike Senior Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

Pass Rate

CrowdStrike's interview process for their Senior Engineer roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

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Candidates reported having very negative feelings for CrowdStrike's Senior Engineer interview process in United States.

CrowdStrike Interview Questions

String Compression

Medium

Compress a given string by replacing consecutive repeating characters with the character followed by the count of repetitions. If the compressed string isn't shorter, return the original.

ArraysTwo PointersStrings

Encode and Decode Strings

Medium

Design an algorithm to encode a list of strings into a single string and then decode the single string back to the original list of strings.

ArraysStrings

Time Based Key-Value Store

Medium

Design a key-value store that supports storing values associated with timestamps. You should be able to retrieve the value for a given key at the latest timestamp less than or equal to a given time.

ArraysBinary Search