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New Graduate Software Engineer Interview Experience

February 1, 2017
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Process

I applied for the new grad residency at the end of January, but the recruiter suggested the new grad SWE role was a better fit.

I completed a personality survey and a one-hour coding challenge.

After that, the recruiter said they wanted to continue. I then completed:

  • Another survey (about work habits and preferences)
  • A phone interview with the recruiter
  • A phone interview with an engineer using Google Docs as a whiteboard

A couple of days later, I received a call stating they were ending the process.

Questions

One of the questions in the coding challenge was about file paths, and the big one during the phone interview was about hash tables.

Fair questions, not too difficult but challenging enough that you don't just breeze through them.

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