Front End Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California
Process
I applied for a Front-End role, but their engineers are all essentially Full-Stack, so the interview process was Full-Stack.
Although I disagree with the other reviewers about elitism, they do bring up MIT a lot. Given that half of the engineering team is from MIT, this is a big group of really smart and dedicated people.
Interview Process:
- Phone screen with recruiter
- Coderpad question about a certain game
- Onsite
The onsite consisted of six rounds:
- 1 Product Demo
- 1 Easy/Medium Algorithm Question regarding their product
- 1 Lunch Round with 2 Employees
- 1 Hard LeetCode Question
- 1 System Design
- 1 Chat with Engineering Manager
(A wrap-up was also included, but not a formal round.)
They are in the process of moving, so the office you interview in is probably not the office you're going to work in. They provided a goodie bag full of Samsara swag at the end of the interview. Also, this is one of the few companies that provides feedback on the technical portion of the interview.
Overall, a very positive experience.
Questions
Algorithm question regarding ranges.
System design about employee/worker interactions.
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