Background: 4 years of experience as a Software Engineer.

First round: A 30-minute recruiter call discussing my background and expectations for the next role.

Codility: I was given an online assessment containing 2 programming questions and 1 SQL question.

After the test, the recruiter contacted me in a couple of days, stating they wanted to move forward. I was then handed off to another recruiter who works with the team in Seattle. I was asked to come onsite in Fremont, with some video interviews with folks in Seattle.

Onsite consisted of 5 rounds:

• Chat with PM: Team fit style questions.
• Lunch interview.
• Tech round: Data modeling question.
• Chat with manager: Team fit style questions.
• Tech round: The interviewer was in no mood for an interview; he seemed very tired. He asked me some simple string manipulation questions for the sake of it and finished the interview 15 minutes before scheduled. At that point, I knew I was not getting this job.

I cannot share any specific questions due to an NDA. However, overall, it was not a very difficult interview.

Codility Assessment:

• Minimum number of characters to delete from a string so that each character appears a unique number of times. Note: You can delete all occurrences of characters.

  • Example: "aaaabbbb" -> 1 "a" or 1 "b" would make "a" and "b" appear a unique number of times.

• Given a number in binary form, if it's even, you can divide it by 2; if it's odd, you can subtract 1 from it. You can repeat these steps as many times as you want to reach 0. How many steps did it take to reach zero?

• SQL question to select records from two tables using joins, etc.