They take interviews as a pastime for their engineers. In almost all my interviews, they had one to two extra interviewers who were shadowing.

Overall, the experience was bad, and most of the interviewers came across as rude and having inflated attitudes. Most of the staff seems fresh out of college, and it appeared they had little cooperation among themselves.

I have spent over 10 years in the storage industry, and Pure Storage comes across as more talk and less substance. The technology is very average, and they are solving the same problems EMC solved a long time ago. Their culture seems miserable to me. There are better companies and technologies to work on, and working on storage would not help you with future jobs.

Almost all questions are from Glassdoor. They are looking for speed.

I answered all questions correctly, but the feedback I got was that I took longer to finish the code.

Q1) Skyline problem Q2) Easy question on a variant of quicksort partition Q3) Locking and synchronization between threads Q4) Manager round.