I was contacted by one director and then going into interview. director talk- culture talk hr talk - some behaviour problems coding problem -- a ready to production projects phone interview for coding -- problems are very easy and interviewed by a senior. Very good.So I decided to continue. onsite: minicom set up -- very speechless process. It is to choose Django Ruby on Rails or Nodejs. I think they would provide a virtual environment with everything set up but not. I chose Django as python has more debugging material. The interviewer sent me a link to download their prototype and then run with commands in my local machine to set up. I asked if there is an IDE set up because I downloaded pycharm beforehand... He said he doesn't know how to set up with IDE...

So they expected to code in texts and no debugging? and there is a bug for their prototype which took us 10 mins to solve it. Pair programming.. I don't have time to set up IDE myself. So I started with data modelling and googling how to make db changes working for Django. With this interviewer, codes are done. then started to run Pair programming. This interviewer doesn't know Django at all. Somehow the project has weird problem and client, server cannot talk anymore. She kept asking me to output some info in backend codes for debugging. I put a render page in views at the first line in the method and not invoked. I explained there is something wrong with the server host. Request reached to host but not reaching to server.

But she still asked to output some info for server codes... I would say their prototype not integrated with Django well and apparently it is an environment problem... This interviewer said she doesn't know what to do wait for the previous interviewer to join.

Demo part- should be. but the projects didn't run properly for server and client communicating. I didn't make any changes and restarted server client several times already. Both interviewers didn't know what to do. So ending up with asking some culture related problems. I was quite unhappy with this process. They only provided 3 options and should be familiar with them at least. If interviewers don't know this,, they expected interviewees know it beforehand?
And they kept saying not caring much about languages.

I didn't expect I would fail this one so I continued the rest interviews. I thought I showed my learning abilities and debugging skills at least. But I got feedback about this one failed, saying it is a bottom line to make app running... Quite speechless. What is the purpose of pair programming? If I knew this result earlier, I would not continue the rest interviews. Waste of time!

role chatting. coding interview: 45 mins in total. This interviewer introduced himself 10 mins. the problem is to find pairs whose sum is given target.
This one is a common algorithm question. So I came up with Hashmap solution with is O(n) rather than 2 loops considering the time perspective... I never expected interviewer doesn't know this solution!! I explained to him.. at first he said he got it. But after I implemented my codes meanwhile I kept explaining my logic -- build hashmap first then finding the pairs... He kept asking building hashmap part to build up the results.. I explained to him for 4 times and he still doesn't know why I wrote a loop for hashmap to build up results.. Then I know he didn't know this solution. So I have to write down the 2 loops solution for him and then he got it.

---I got feedback for this one -- Blaming me solving problems too slow and he prepared 2 questions... Excuse me????????
Then why I passed previous phone coding interview?

database design culture contributions HR wrap up.

I got declined and feedback after 2 working days and quite surprised for it frankly speaking.

I would say their interview process is easy and highly depending on who is the interviewer.

I interviewed with 10 interviewers in total for this position. 2 of them flag 'No' then that's it. The rest are quite nice people.

All interview process are well described in Intercom blog.