Software Engineer Interview Experience - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
October 1, 2013
Positive ExperienceGot Offer
Process
Met the team at a campus recruitment event. I could use my previous experience to engage with them. I secured an on-campus interview the next day. It went well and was mainly technical.
This was followed by dinner with the team.
Then came two phone screens, both technical. They weren't very challenging but required basic CS and systems knowledge. The second one quizzed me on specific technologies Twilio worked with, things I was somewhat familiar with.
The third "interview" was a discussion with the team lead to discuss the position and seal the deal.
Questions
Given a hash map implemented as an array of linked lists, how would you make it concurrently accessible?
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Twilio's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is incredibly easy as the vast majority of engineers get an offer after going through it.
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Twilio Work Experiences
4.0
Awkward transition phase of hypergrowth, but still a great place to work
Software Engineer • Current Employee
San Francisco, California, United States
January 13, 2022
Pros: Great trust in the CEO and management team, and great people to work with. Awesome vision. High chance of being a generational opportunity and a household-name company. Great work-life balance.
Cons: Massive growing pains for the last couple years that they're having trouble addressing.
Put simply, it's not as wonderful a place to work as it used to be, if you're used to small companies.
If you're willing to be a cog in the machine, you'll be fine.
They will probably manage to address them eventually (or perhaps slow the pace of growth), and it'll be a better place to work once again.
4.0
Good aside from layoffs
Software Engineer • Current Employee
September 2, 2024
Pros: Definite work-life balance and not too much work.
Cons: Cons:
* Bureaucracy
* Too many layoffs to count
* Too many VPs
4.0
Great place to work at
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
August 29, 2021
Pros: Great benefits package.
People are very friendly. Truly a great and supportive community.
The company operates in multiple segments, so there are a lot of development opportunities in terms of personal career.
For example, you could do ML, you could work with IoT, or perhaps you might be interested in Observability and help other employees understand what's going on with their systems.
Cons: I see quite a lot of people leaving. Although I don't have the stats on how many people are joining the company, the number of people who have already left seems quite big. But I guess it's normal in companies of such scale.
Perhaps I am just too naive to think that this doesn't happen a lot in other companies, but to me it seems there is quite a lot of some kind of bureaucracy going on. Almost every week I see some new initiatives which involve lots of new documents. Hard to keep up.
- 4.0Awkward transition phase of hypergrowth, but still a great place to workSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Francisco, California, United StatesJanuary 13, 2022Pros: Great trust in the CEO and management team, and great people to work with. Awesome vision. High chance of being a generational opportunity and a household-name company. Great work-life balance.Cons: Massive growing pains for the last couple years that they're having trouble addressing. Put simply, it's not as wonderful a place to work as it used to be, if you're used to small companies. If you're willing to be a cog in the machine, you'll be fine. They will probably manage to address them eventually (or perhaps slow the pace of growth), and it'll be a better place to work once again.
- 4.0Good aside from layoffsSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeSeptember 2, 2024Pros: Definite work-life balance and not too much work.Cons: Cons: * Bureaucracy * Too many layoffs to count * Too many VPs
- 4.0Great place to work atSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeTallinn, Harju County, EstoniaAugust 29, 2021Pros: Great benefits package. People are very friendly. Truly a great and supportive community. The company operates in multiple segments, so there are a lot of development opportunities in terms of personal career. For example, you could do ML, you could work with IoT, or perhaps you might be interested in Observability and help other employees understand what's going on with their systems.Cons: I see quite a lot of people leaving. Although I don't have the stats on how many people are joining the company, the number of people who have already left seems quite big. But I guess it's normal in companies of such scale. Perhaps I am just too naive to think that this doesn't happen a lot in other companies, but to me it seems there is quite a lot of some kind of bureaucracy going on. Almost every week I see some new initiatives which involve lots of new documents. Hard to keep up.
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