Bank gone wild
Bank gone wild
It used to be a great company, but that company no longer exists.
The company is bankrupted. Layoffs of all Seattle HQ employees are imminent.
"We hope to do to this industry what Wal-Mart did to theirs, Starbucks did to theirs, Costco did to theirs, and Lowe's-Home Depot did to their industry. And I think if we've done our job, five years from now you're not going to call us a bank."
-- Kerry Killinger WaMu chief executive, 2003
During Killinger's tenure, WaMu pressed sales agents to pump out loans while disregarding borrowers' incomes and assets, according to former employees. The bank set up what insiders described as a system that enabled real-estate agents to collect fees of more than $10,000 for bringing in borrowers, sometimes making the agents more beholden to WaMu than they were to their clients.
Don't do subprime lending. Oops. Too late.
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Two rounds of interviews. The first was theory questions and one coding question: transpose of a matrix. The second round was system design of your recent project, a Trie coding question, and one scenario-based Java question.
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The coding round was medium level. Two coding questions were asked. One was easier, but the other one was a little difficult. The time allotted was 75 minutes. After this round, there is a video personality online round where you have to answer a fe
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Seattle, Washington, United StatesNovember 1, 2020This was in late 2020 (all virtual) for their growing cloud division in Seattle, WA. The first interview was a single technical interview. I had a video call with an engineer and completed a question with code sharing. The final round virtual onsit
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Mumbai, Maharashtra, IndiaMarch 1, 2021The coding round was medium level. Two coding questions were asked. One was easier, but the other one was a little difficult. The time allotted was 75 minutes. After this round, there is a video personality online round where you have to answer a fe
