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Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Diego, California

July 1, 2020
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Process

The interview process typically began with a recruiter phone screen, followed by a technical phone interview. This led to a 6-hour virtual onsite interview, which included a craft demo and an "about me" presentation covering career highlights and projects. The interviewers were generally friendly, though they seemed a bit under-skilled based on the questions asked during the craft demo.

Questions

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Craft Demo: You are building a Marketplace for Self-Employed.

You have two actors:

  • Seller: Posts a project with detailed requirements. The post also includes the last day and time for accepting bids.
  • Buyer (Self-Employed): Bids for work on a fixed price or hourly basis.

High-Level Requirements: Assume all projects can be done remotely/online. You do not need to worry about matching by location. The Buyer with the lowest bid automatically wins the bid when the deadline is reached. The lowest bid is displayed on the project page. We have 50K registered Buyers. On average, 100 projects are posted every day. On average, each project receives 50 bids. On the homepage, we need to show the 100 most recent projects. You are welcome to assume unspecified requirements to make it better for the customers.

Programming Problem: If you are a front-end engineer: Feel free to mock backend service responses and use any library/framework of your choice.

If you are a Full Stack Engineer: Build the service-side part along with the Front End part mentioned. For building services, you can use an in-memory database, or optionally, a persistent data store of your choice. You are encouraged but not required to take advantage of a service code-generation framework of your choice when performing this exercise.

Find non-duplicates in an array of duplicates and one non-duplicate.

One other LeetCode easy question that the interviewer apparently had no idea how to solve it himself lol...

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 15 interview experiences for the Intuit Software Engineer role in San Diego, California.

Success Rate

47%
Pass Rate

Intuit's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in San Diego, California is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive47%
Neutral33%
Negative20%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Intuit's Software Engineer interview process in San Diego, California.

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