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Software Engineer Interview Experience

December 2, 2020
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Got the email for the online technical interview.

Interview was scheduled two weeks out.

Met with two interviewers and wrote my code in the HackerRank interface. The code was not tested.

Apparently, there was some equation for the number of friend requests. I don't know how they came up with this number, and it was not obvious from the question (ended up being the ceiling function (n-1)/2 or something like that).

I felt like my code was decent, even though I had to ask about friend distribution. I was a bit surprised to get the rejection email. I did notice they looked at my LinkedIn profile right before sending the rejection email.

Perhaps there were errors with my code that I did not notice.

Questions

Provide an algorithm that provides friend suggestions to a list of friends in a social network. The friend suggestions should be "fair," i.e., evenly distributed.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 133 interview experiences for the Qualtrics Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

14%
Pass Rate

Qualtrics's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive46%
Neutral28%
Negative26%

Candidates reported having good feelings for Qualtrics's Software Engineer interview process in United States.

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