I was emailed by a recruiter, who gave me a link to apply at. You'll fill out a few forms and submit your resume.

There's then a phone interview, that's very casual feeling. Then there's a skills assessment that's very long and difficult. It has three parts:

• Speed round
• Technical
• Programming

I recommend finding some "speed round" practice tests that test you on solving as many problems in a short, limited amount of time.

The technical part isn't terrible. They explain the syntax of a made-up language, and you have to answer questions related to how a given expression will be interpreted based on that.

The programming part is an ugly beast. First, you have to use a poorly executed service called ProctorU that feels very intrusive and very clunky. Research the service. It's a good idea, but horribly executed.

I might recommend having the assessment scheduled at an official testing center as opposed to using your personal computer.

There will be 4 programming problems to solve, which can be done in C, C++, Java, or Python, and there's no compiling during the exam. I barely finished the first problem and didn't finish the others. I had to resort to very vague pseudocode.

I highly recommend visiting a website called open.kattis.com and practice as many problems as possible. It will only help.

Hope this helps, and good luck.

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