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Software Engineer (New College Grad) Interview Experience

July 13, 2022
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied online. The process took 2 weeks.

The process was first a phone call from HR and then the 1st screening was pretty easy, but the interviewer had a hard accent. It was 1 technical question about Python and then 1 coding question about a matrix and moving from top left to bottom right with all possible combinations. Then I talked a little bit about my experience and background.

The next screening was supposed to be 5 different interviews on 2 consecutive days. The first day I did 2 different screenings with 2 interviewers, but both of them were extremely rude and had an accent. Supposedly the interview was about data structures and OOP, but they were focusing only on graph algorithms and the only coding questions. Even when I tried to solve them, they didn't try to understand my solution and didn't ask any other questions. It was so rude and unprofessional at all.

The 2 coding questions were:

  • Getting the critical edges from graphs by disconnecting the graphs
  • Getting all the possible combination sums for numbers from 1 to 9 by giving the size of numbers and the target sum

Questions

The process was first a phone call from the HR and then the 1st screening was pretty easy, but the interviewer had a hard accent. It was 1 technical question about python and then 1 coding question about a matrix and moving from top left to bottom right with all possible combinations. Then I talked a little bit about my experience and background.

The next screening was supposed to be 5 different interviews on 2 consecutive days. The first day I did 2 different screening with 2 interviewers, but both of them were extremely rude and had an accent, and supposedly the interview was about data structure and OOP, but they were focusing only on Graph algorithms and the only coding questions. Even when I tried to solve them, they didn't try to understand my solution and didn't ask any other questions. It was so rude and unprofessional at all.

The 2 coding questions were:

  • Getting the critical edges from graphs by disconnecting the graphs.
  • Getting all the possible combination sums for numbers from 1 to 9 by giving the size of numbers and the target sum.

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