Twilio

Staff Software Engineer Interview Experience - Spain

September 1, 2022

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Scheduled 30-minute interview in which the recruiter told me that the vacancy was already filled. A terrible waste of time. The interview was arranged weeks in advance and could have been canceled.

Questions

I was told that the position was not available. It was a bizarre experience.

Interview Statistics

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

Success Rate

50%

Pass Rate

Twilio's interview process for their Staff Software Engineer roles in Spain is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive50%

Neutral0%

Negative50%

Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Twilio's Staff Software Engineer interview process in Spain.

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