Interview stages

1. Chat with recruiter.

2. Chat with Engineering Manager.

3. Virtual onsite:

• 3.1. Extend Minicom: a mini version of Intercom using HTML, CSS and JS on the front end and a back end framework of your choice: JS with Express, Java with Spring, Ruby on Rails or Python with Django.
• 3.2. Chat with an engineer about your experience and ask questions about the company.
• 3.3. Technical design: designing a chat feature with the design tool Whimsical. The main challenge was understanding 1..1, 1..n and n..n relationships between the boxes.

Advice:

• Know HTML, CSS and plain JS on the front end well.
• Know a back end framework.
• Understand 1..1, 1..n and n..n relationships.

Create a box and arrow diagram of a chat system.