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Software Engineer - Front End Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

June 1, 2017
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I was contacted by a recruiter on LinkedIn. Overall, the process was great, and everyone I spoke to was nice. Apart from the position, I was mainly concerned about culture and work-life balance, and everyone I spoke to was really happy about working there.

  1. Technical phone screen - This was a standard Collabedit phone screen. Part 1, I was given some code and asked for its output and how to fix it. It was based on scope and JS inheritance. Part 2, HTML/CSS: I had to code from an image they provided. I was also asked to explain floats, promises, and accessibility. This was pretty straightforward; make sure you brush up on core JS.

  2. Heard back roughly a week later and was invited onsite. The onsite had 6 interviews with lunch. The HR will give you the different modules each interview focuses on. All interviews mainly focused on UI (HTML/CSS/JS), except for one which was an algo string manipulation question. Some modules were just JS, while others required me to build out the whole component as a plugin (HTML/CSS/JS). The design question was also more UI layer-focused than system architecture, which was unusual.

  3. I left thinking I did well in all my interviews. But unfortunately, I didn't get the job. The reason I was given was that feedback on the Design and one JS round wasn't good. In both interviews, I kept an open dialogue, discussed solutions, improved with hints, and reached agreeable outcomes. It was disappointing to not get specific feedback, so I'm not sure what really went wrong.

Questions

String manipulation.

Write a jQuery method in pure JS.

Pragmatic UI.

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