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Software Engineer, PhD Interview Experience - Seattle, Washington

October 1, 2019
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Recruiter email, then phone screen.

Onsite (this was before the COVID era):

  • Phone screen: LeetCode Easy (remove duplicates), time complexity.

  • Onsite: Four back-to-back technical interviews.

    • The first two interviewers, presumably junior engineers, were unprofessional and appeared busy with other tasks. One of them continuously looked at their phone during the interview. I did not like their approaches.
    • The second two interviewers, presumably senior/manager level, were great. I performed well in one interview and average in the other. The questions included one LeetCode Easy, two LeetCode Medium, and one LeetCode Hard.

Questions

LC easy, medium, and hard.

Optimize the solution for medium/hard levels. I guess the pool was more competitive than expected during that time.

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