Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California
Process
Started with a standard HR call. Followed by two technical phone interviews. After that, I was invited for an onsite interview. OpenTable took care of my flights and hotel.
Onsite Interview: It was a half-day interview. I met with a couple of engineers and the hiring manager. Everyone seemed friendly except for one person. He seemed quite rude and made me uncomfortable.
Questions were mostly about RESTful microservices, Java concurrency, and some basic DS questions. I thought I did well, but I guess they had different expectations for that role.
Questions
All the questions were LeetCode medium questions.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 7 interview experiences for the OpenTable Senior Software Engineer role in San Francisco, California.
Success Rate
OpenTable's interview process for their Senior Software Engineer roles in San Francisco, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having mixed feelings for OpenTable's Senior Software Engineer interview process in San Francisco, California.
OpenTable Work Experiences
- 5.0Great Work-Life BalanceSenior Software Engineer • Current EmployeeSeptember 26, 2017Pros: - The work/life balance here has been fantastic. - Generous with enrichment opportunities. - Genuinely concerned and active in regards to diversity.Cons: - Sometimes scattered technical goals - Should spend more time addressing technical debt (though really most tech companies need to do this)
- 5.0Great place to work, but there's always room for improvementSenior Software Engineer • Current EmployeeSouth San Francisco, CAApril 18, 2018Pros: Culture is great, especially with regard to support from managers and collaboration. People are there to help each other. No workplace is perfect, but it is overall a healthy culture with a lot of value placed in work-life balance. There are a lot of big challenges, both technical and otherwise, and some big impacts to be made. Even relatively junior contributors can make a significant difference to the product if they seek the opportunities. Both consumer and enterprise products offer a lot of different challenges to work on.Cons: Big organizations can move slowly sometimes, and OpenTable is no exception, although this has been getting better with fluid teams. Better coordination between product, design, and engineering is needed in some areas.
- 5.0Pretty nice over hereSenior Software Engineer • Current EmployeeLos Angeles, CAJanuary 9, 2021Pros: Cliché, but the people are generally super nice. And the engineering team does legit care about quality. A lot of companies say that they care, but the engineers here really do care.Cons: Some people can be egotistical, but that is a plague in our industry and not OT specific.
