I was contacted about a week after submitting my resume through their online repository. An employee also submitted my resume.

I had a phone interview that was approximately 30 minutes long, conducted a week later. My background: I'm a senior with 7 months of real-world RoR and Spring development experience. However, I had not yet taken the Algorithms & Design course, and this is what cost me the opportunity. I'm in a co-op school, so this class would have been completed by the time the Fall internship would have started. Nevertheless, they required that I knew it then and there.

Pros:

The interviewer was nice, polite, and patient. I received my rejection two days after the interview, so I didn't have to wait long.

Cons:

It seemed like he hadn't reviewed my resume when, before my coding exercise began, he asked if I "wrote code in Java"—information that would have been clear from the first paragraph of my resume. If you have not taken a course on algorithms and design, I suggest learning what you can on your own before the interview. If you have real-world experience, they likely won't prioritize it, so focus on your computer science fundamentals.

There were no difficult questions.

Descriptive questions included:

• The difference between arrays and linked lists.
• How to insert into an array and a linked list.
• How to remove from an array and a linked list.

He also asked questions about Quick Sort vs. Merge Sort, Big O, and another algorithms question, which I could not answer because I had not taken the course.

Coding exercise: Build a Binary Tree (not BST) and implement a getDepth() method that returns the depth of the tree.