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Software Engineer - Front End Interview Experience - New York, New York

May 1, 2017
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Process

I was contacted by a recruiter via email, then we hopped on a quick call.

We scheduled a 30-minute call to talk about the role and basic stuff.

After that, we scheduled a technical call/screening with their FE Developer. He was an awesome person to talk with and very smart.

He asked me a question that was related to closures, but I don't remember what the question was.

It should be a pretty easy question if you have an understanding of closures and JS in general.

I was contacted the same day to schedule an in-person interview.

The in-person interview consisted of 4 interviews.

Each interview was an hour long, but the first 20 minutes of each interview was them asking behavioral questions, and the last 10 were for questions you might have.

  • FE Portion concentrated in CSS (Build a working traffic light, this was pretty fun)
  • Architecture. I was told that the guy who usually asks this question always chooses Tetris, but he allowed me to choose an app to design. I chose the Reddit app and he told me to choose a feature that I would like to add, and we talked about a scalable way to add it in. Pretty fun, and also this guy is VERY smart and will help you out and give you hints.
  • General algorithm question. He asked me to write a function that takes in an array of ints and a number. This function should output true or false if the number provided can be made using any two numbers in the array.
  • This was a meeting with the CTO. Now, this might seem intimidating, but it's not. This man is SUPER cool. I get easily nervous, but around him, I was not nervous. Also, he worked for the Xbox team!

Given a list of numbers, find the longest sum of numbers. So, for example, given [1, 3, 6, -1, 5, 3, 3, 0, -6] -> The answer is 5 + 3 + 3 = 11.

I was contacted the next morning with an offer.

Ultimately, I rejected the offer because I got a better offer. But I do regret not taking their offer because the team was super cool and nice. They seem like bright people that you can learn from. If I didn't have that other offer, I would have chosen them.

Questions

A question involving closure. I don't remember the question.

Make a working traffic light using HTML, CSS, and JS.

Write a function that takes in an array of integers and a number. This function should output true or false if the number provided can be made using any two numbers in the array.

For example: ([1, 2, 3, 4, 5], 5) ==> false ([1, 2, 3, 4, 5], 4) ==> true (1+3) ([1, 2, 3, 4, 5], 6) ==> true (5+1 or 2+4) ([1, 2, 3, 4, 5], 10) ==> false

Architecture the Reddit app. This means drawing a diagram of how each of the components work and speak to each other.

Given a list of numbers, find the longest sum of numbers. For example, given [1, 3, 6, -1, 5, 3, 3, 0, -6], the answer is 5 + 3 + 3 = 11.

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