They have a normal interview process: phone, then onsite.
The phone interview was pretty average. The interviewer had an instigator attitude, not a sign of friendliness, and was very harsh. I did pretty well because I usually excel in the technical part.
I made it to the onsite, and that's when things took off to the next level. I met with four people.
The hiring manager was a typical manager who loves to smile, BS, and backstab you, which is pretty common in the tech industry.
The leads were the most awful part; they were extremely manipulative and lazy. They were the kinds of leads we all know where, instead of leading people, they hire more junior people and suffocate them under themselves.
The leads were American, and they were all male as well, so I didn't meet with any women, and I didn't see any women even in the office.
I was placed in a room where the guy next to me was shouting on the phone. The manager said, "Oh, he is just loud." As I was proposed to solve the questions, which I did.
They all had the worst personalities that I've seen throughout my career. So, culturally, it's definitely a very dark place where they hire you and put you in a corner and let you suffer as they go up themselves and make more money, laughing behind your back, and they think it's okay.
Stay away from this place; they don't know what they are doing themselves, and they don't even know how to evaluate their candidates.
They put me through six hours of interviews and never even got back to me.
It's a typical garbage company in tech, so stay far and stay healthy.
Hope this helps.
Love and light!
Lots of questions. One was about an iterator for a list, where you implement next and hasNext. The other two questions were pretty easy too.
String parsing. The technical part is pretty straightforward, as long as you have some basics covered and understood. I wouldn't worry about that too much.
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