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Software Engineer Interview Experience

April 15, 2020
Negative ExperienceGot Offer

Process

I applied online. The process took 4 weeks.

Don't waste your time unless you are ready to work for $20 dollars per hour. Their submission website is sloppy and unprofessional. It abuses your time asking you to do more and more hour-long (!) quizzes for various technologies. The quiz questions test trivia, not engineering knowledge. Most of the questions can be googled up in seconds. On numerous occasions, I was stuck after passing all the required quizzes. I thought: "so what next? I took all of the required quizzes, how do I proceed further"? No visual cues, no nothing. Absolutely nothing on the user interface suggests that I need to wait until they decide to throw more time-wasters at me. There is not a single contact point (at least email) on the site to clarify what the heck is happening and what to expect next.

After that, there was a technical interview with a guy who asked me to solve an "engineering task, thinking like a developer", but refuses to acknowledge that there can be multiple approaches to solving a problem. He specifically expects one particular type of solution, without ever making that expectation clear. Finally, after reaching the "onboarding call" stage I was asked about my rate and then informed that they would not proceed with me unless I set it at $20 dollars per hour. Could they have asked about the rate in the beginning of the process, not after I've invested a ridiculous amount of time into this? This was the most silly interview experience in my life.

Questions

What type of Node.js streams are there? What props are there in a particular React Native component?

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 64 interview experiences for the Turing Software Engineer role.

Success Rate

20%
Pass Rate

Turing's interview process for their Software Engineer roles is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive52%
Neutral17%
Negative31%

Candidates reported having good feelings for Turing's Software Engineer interview process.

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