Twilio

Staff Software Engineer Interview Experience - Bengaluru, Karnataka

August 1, 2021

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

There were supposed to be two rounds of interviews. The first round was with the Hiring Manager, and the second was also with a Director.

It appears the interviewer may have less experience or is simply increasing the interview count for reporting purposes.

Questions

The interview is behavioral and non-technical for a full technical role.

There is no focus on:

Areas of work mentioned on the JD
Any technical concepts
Real-time experience

All they ask is how you handle situations.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the Twilio Staff Software Engineer role in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

Success Rate

Pass Rate

Twilio's interview process for their Staff Software Engineer roles in Bengaluru, Karnataka is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive0%

Neutral0%

Negative100%

Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Twilio's Staff Software Engineer interview process in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

Twilio Interview Questions

Maximize Greatness of an Array

Medium

Given an array of numbers, rearrange it to maximize the number of indices where array[i] < rearranged_array[i]. Essentially, you want to maximize how many numbers in the array can be replaced by a strictly larger number from within the same array.

ArraysTwo PointersGreedy Algorithms

Univalued Binary Tree

Easy

Determine if a binary tree is univalued, meaning every node has the same value. You need to check if all nodes in the tree contain the same value.

TreesRecursion

Reformat Date

Easy

You're given a date string in a specific format (e.g., "20th Oct 2052") and need to convert it to a standardized format (YYYY-MM-DD).

Strings