Pure Storage

Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

June 1, 2015

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Online test, followed by an onsite interview. The recruiter was the best.

I thought they needed to include more experienced people in the interview loop, individuals who could judge aspects beyond just the predetermined solution. I felt they already had a set idea of the core problem.

I don't like the 'draw a circle' question, as it provides no coding insight.

Questions

Draw a circle.

Virtual function memory layout. A question related to synchronizations; just have your fundamentals clear here.

Binary bit map question.

See the document below for a compilation of all questions asked until July 2015.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 3 interview experiences for the Pure Storage Senior Software Engineer role in Mountain View, California.

Success Rate

0%

Pass Rate

Pure Storage's interview process for their Senior Software Engineer roles in Mountain View, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive0%

Neutral33%

Negative67%

Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Pure Storage's Senior Software Engineer interview process in Mountain View, California.

Pure Storage Work Experiences

Great place to work

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

February 19, 2021

Pros: Great workplace for all engineers.

Cons: Not much. Balanced view of work-life.

Great place to work

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

February 19, 2021

Pros: Great workplace for all engineers.

Cons: Not much. Balanced view of work-life.

Great place to work, but is going downhill as it grows due to increasing overhead for work

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

September 28, 2020

Pros: The people are great. The engineers are talented and knowledgeable, as are the PMs.

Cons: Management is not great. Not horrible, but not great. There's been a steadily increasing amount of overhead to get literally anything done, to the point where many people are wasting a ton of time just to do simple tasks. Opening new offices overseas has not made that any better, and in at least one Pure's acquisitions, there was an influx of toxic culture from the acquired company that has not been corrected or dissuaded.

Great place to work, but is going downhill as it grows due to increasing overhead for work

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

September 28, 2020

Pros: The people are great. The engineers are talented and knowledgeable, as are the PMs.

Cons: Management is not great. Not horrible, but not great. There's been a steadily increasing amount of overhead to get literally anything done, to the point where many people are wasting a ton of time just to do simple tasks. Opening new offices overseas has not made that any better, and in at least one Pure's acquisitions, there was an influx of toxic culture from the acquired company that has not been corrected or dissuaded.

Great place to work

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

Pros: Amazing culture, decent benefits, and a good company trajectory.

Cons: Sometimes you have to explain what you work on to your relatives by referencing "the box" from Silicon Valley.

Great place to work

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

Pros: Amazing culture, decent benefits, and a good company trajectory.

Cons: Sometimes you have to explain what you work on to your relatives by referencing "the box" from Silicon Valley.

Great place to work

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

February 19, 2021

Pros: Great workplace for all engineers.

Cons: Not much. Balanced view of work-life.

5.0
Great place to work
Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee
Mountain View, California, United States
February 19, 2021
Pros: Great workplace for all engineers.
Cons: Not much. Balanced view of work-life.

Great place to work, but is going downhill as it grows due to increasing overhead for work

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

September 28, 2020

Pros: The people are great. The engineers are talented and knowledgeable, as are the PMs.

Cons: Management is not great. Not horrible, but not great. There's been a steadily increasing amount of overhead to get literally anything done, to the point where many people are wasting a ton of time just to do simple tasks. Opening new offices overseas has not made that any better, and in at least one Pure's acquisitions, there was an influx of toxic culture from the acquired company that has not been corrected or dissuaded.

4.0
Great place to work, but is going downhill as it grows due to increasing overhead for work
Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee
Mountain View, California, United States
September 28, 2020
Pros: The people are great. The engineers are talented and knowledgeable, as are the PMs.
Cons: Management is not great. Not horrible, but not great. There's been a steadily increasing amount of overhead to get literally anything done, to the point where many people are wasting a ton of time just to do simple tasks. Opening new offices overseas has not made that any better, and in at least one Pure's acquisitions, there was an influx of toxic culture from the acquired company that has not been corrected or dissuaded.

Great place to work

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Mountain View, California, United States

Pros: Amazing culture, decent benefits, and a good company trajectory.

Cons: Sometimes you have to explain what you work on to your relatives by referencing "the box" from Silicon Valley.

5.0
Great place to work
Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee
Mountain View, California, United States
April 9, 2019
Pros: Amazing culture, decent benefits, and a good company trajectory.
Cons: Sometimes you have to explain what you work on to your relatives by referencing "the box" from Silicon Valley.

Pure Storage Interview Questions

Valid Square

Determine if four given points in a 2D plane form a valid square. A valid square has four equal sides and four right angles.

Palindromic Substrings

Find the number of palindromic substrings within a given string. Consider each single character and repeated characters as a substring.

StringsDynamic ProgrammingTwo Pointers

Design Skiplist

Implement a Skiplist data structure that supports efficient search, insertion, and deletion of elements. A Skiplist is a probabilistic data structure with multiple levels of linked lists.

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