Process
About three weeks after submitting my application online, I was contacted to schedule two 45-minute technical phone interviews with engineers.
We worked over a Google Doc, and I was asked several technical questions and asked to write small snippets of code. I thought the questions were very fair, if not a bit too easy.
The first phone interview was pretty much 100% problem-based, with five minutes at the end for questions of my own.
The second phone interview was less problem-oriented and more concept-oriented. They asked about my projects and interests, and also asked questions that required some critical thinking.
I thought the first interview went okay, but not great. The second one, however, seemed to go flawlessly.
A little over a week after my interviews, I received a call with an offer.
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