Principal Software Engineer Interview Experience - Cambridge, United Kingdom
Process
Easiest I've seen in a while.
Coding challenge on HackerRank or similar (don't remember, but I think it had unlimited time) and a follow-up interview with Software Engineers.
Also, an interview with the manager to discuss the position and your background.
The bad part is that once you clear the interviews, it takes too long to get an offer.
Questions
The questions were related to a linked list (you can choose the language), an API call (this was in Python), and an easy LeetCode problem. I believe it might have been LeetCode problem number 1, such as "Two Sum" or a similar problem.
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