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Frontend Engineer Interview Experience - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

February 1, 2018
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The recruiter got in touch within a week of applying. An initial call was set up, after which I was given a take-home work task. This involved more or less building a small crossword-type UI with some specific requirements, which felt pretty reasonable for a frontend engineering position.

Two days after completing the work task, I was invited to the Pittsburgh office for on-site interviews. The recruiter was super helpful, offering to organize apartment viewings, etc.

On-site interviews consisted of a few whiteboarding sessions with various (non-frontend) engineers about basic algorithms. I was also asked to sit with a Python developer to implement a small test feature in a RESTful API service, although I don't know Python. They were helpful with language syntax, though.

I never met any designers or frontend engineers, and I was never asked to discuss my work task, which I found strange since I spent a day on it. In retrospect, I honestly think they were interviewing me for another role by accident.

Questions

  1. Write a prime number sieve based on given requirements.
  2. Depth-first search problem.

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Duolingo's interview process for their Frontend Engineer roles in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Duolingo's Frontend Engineer interview process in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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