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Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

August 1, 2014
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Process

I was given a referral by a current employee at the time, so I can't speak to the response time of recruiters to applications submitted online.

After the referral, I was reached out to by an internal recruiter who quickly got me in touch with the hiring manager.

The hiring manager brought me in for an on-site introduction and an informal "are-you-insane-or-not" screen.

After that, I received a small coding challenge which took about ~2 hours of total work to complete.

The hiring manager was on vacation the week I wanted to submit my coding challenge, but once they were back, they had it reviewed and scheduled an on-site interview within about a week.

The on-site interview was with three software engineers and two managers, one of whom was the hiring manager I had been speaking with already.

The interviews themselves basically boiled down to four informal conversations with the engineers and one of the managers, and a very high-level technical exercise with the other manager.

I was given an offer immediately after the rounds of interviewing.

Questions

How would you build the various components of a mobile Battleship game?

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 6 interview experiences for the New Relic Software Engineer role in San Francisco, California.

Success Rate

33%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive33%
Neutral17%
Negative50%

Candidates reported having negative feelings for New Relic's Software Engineer interview process in San Francisco, California.

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