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Principal Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

February 1, 2017
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Pretty lousy experience overall, especially for an internal referral.

The initial interactions with the recruiting team were promising; however, the hiring team turned out to be very unprofessional. The first round of telephonic technical discussion was canceled just 1 hour before the call, citing developer absence. The call was rescheduled with the same engineer, who turned up 15 minutes late. The discussions went fine, so I did not mind the initial delay.

I was invited onsite to meet the hiring team engineers and director. The interactions did start well, and the people I met were courteous, but again the schedule was interrupted midway due to engineer unavailability. The recruiter seemed rather helpless at this point when we met to wrap up the day's interview proceedings.

I did not feel excited about the prospect of joining such a group, where the engineers did not seem to honor their team-building commitment and respect people's time. This also shows a lack of respect to existing staff who care and reach out to suitable candidates.

Questions

Tree traversal coding, Concurrent transactions, System Design

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Interview Statistics

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LendingClub's interview process for their Principal Software Engineer roles in San Francisco, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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Candidates reported having very negative feelings for LendingClub's Principal Software Engineer interview process in San Francisco, California.

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