Entry Level Back-end Engineer Interview Experience - New York, New York
Process
Applied online. A month later, I was asked to complete a code challenge on Codility and do an online interview. Not a live interview, just recording myself.
The five interview questions are given ahead of time, so it is easy to prepare for them.
I had 1 hour for the Codility test and 5 minutes for each of the interview questions.
Received an email a week later indicating I was no longer in consideration.
Questions
The Codility Test was about taking an integer and determining how many different arrangements of the number are possible. So, if given 132, the arrangements are 132, 123, 231, 213, 312, 321. So the function should return 6.
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