Pure Storage

Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

January 1, 2020

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interview lasted the whole day and involved speaking with approximately five different people.

In each session, the interviewee had to solve one or more technical questions using the whiteboard.

The questions began with easier ones and progressively became more challenging.

Questions

Upon device boot-up, describe a mechanism to ensure two threads can access a shared critical region.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 37 interview experiences for the Pure Storage Software Engineer role in Mountain View, California.

Success Rate

27%

Pass Rate

Pure Storage's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Mountain View, California is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive59%

Neutral11%

Negative30%

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

Pure Storage Interview Questions

Valid Square

Medium

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

Medium

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

Hard

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.

Linked Lists