Frontend Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California
Process
I was contacted by a recruiter and had an intro call to align on the role.
From there, a hiring manager interview was conducted to gather insights around my previous experiences and impact.
Then, an onsite interview occurred, which consisted of Systems Design, a FE UI interview, and a product sense interview.
The process took like 5 weeks. I say 'like 5 weeks' because I was the one who did most of the rescheduling due to personal reasons. They can move more quickly if you want them to.
Every interview I had was treated more like a conversation than a grilling where you're expected to have the optimized answer or solution. I enjoyed the process as a whole, and the folks interviewing seemed smart, approachable, and nice to work with.
Questions
Tell me about a project that you've worked on and had an impact on the business as a whole.
How would you design a chat app? (open-ended)
You'll fork a repo that has some skeleton code, then you have the option of doing FE or BE depending on your area of expertise.
In this repo is an app that you'll need to add functionality to. Think updating a UI with CRUD features.
How would you design an experiment for an underperforming new feature?
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