Senior Software Engineer - Backend Interview Experience - Minneapolis, Minnesota
Process
The initial phone screen was good, and the Technical Recruiter was very friendly and open.
However, the technical interview was awful. It was off-shored through Karat, and I got an interviewer with a thick accent who offered little to no help. Karat's web IDE was also awful, providing minimal indications of whether what I was trying to do would build or not until I hit the Build button. It was just terrible.
I developed a full solution for the first problem and then explained my solution for the second problem but ran out of time before I could implement it fully. Both questions were LeetCode medium/hard and had no actual connection to day-to-day software engineering.
Questions
10 minutes of trivia questions regarding software engineering concepts, then 45 minutes to finish 2 LeetCode Medium/Hard problems.
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