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Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

July 1, 2022
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

A Twitch recruiter reached out to me. Following that, I had a call with her.

Then, I had a one-hour-long call with the hiring manager, where he mostly went over my experience, etc. There were no technical questions as such.

After this, I had my virtual on-site round, consisting of five one-hour-long interviews.

There were two coding rounds, one soft skills round, and two architecture rounds.

Remember that they will ask you behavioral questions (based on leadership principles, etc.) in every round, not just the soft skills round.

When it came to my soft skills round, the interviewer thought it would be appropriate to turn that into an architecture round as well. So, in all, I had two coding and three architecture rounds (which I was not informed about in the pre-interview calls), with behavioral questions spread across every round.

The thing I was most disappointed (and angered) about was that when I asked the recruiter for feedback regarding my interview and what my shortcomings were (so that I could improve them in the future), they said, "We do not provide any feedback to the candidate."

I mean, what is this behavior? This is the most condescending a company has ever been to me. I would never in my life apply to Twitch again. The least you can do after rejecting a candidate is give them some feedback so that it helps them.

Absolutely a horrible experience.

Questions

Given an array of integers of at least length > 15, allow the first 15 integers to pass without inspection. Starting at the 16th integer, return the first integer in the list that is not a sum of any two integers found in the PREVIOUS 15 integers in the list. If all integers in the array after the first 15 pass this test, return 0.

The array only includes positive integers, but is not guaranteed to be strictly increasing or decreasing. The array can include duplicates, but will not include 0.

Input: [55, 59, 3, 25, 37, 2, 38, 58, 6, 53, 55, 84, 45, 89, 90, 58, 31, 8, 122, 59, 100, 116, 39, 97, 123, 218, 130]

// [ 55, 59, 3, 25, 37, 2, 38, 58, 6, 53, 55, 84, 45, 89, 90 ]

// Remember [114, 58, 80... 62 .... length = 210]

Elaborate: Index 0-14: Passed without any code as part of the problem statement. Index 15: 58 is the sum of 3 (idx 2) and 55 (idx 0). (Continue) Index 16: 31 is the sum of 6 (idx 8) and 25 (idx 3). (Continue) Index 17: 8 is the sum of 6 (idx 8) and 2 (idx 5). (Continue)

Please note that the numbers considered are always the previous 15 numbers in the list, and not necessarily the first 15 numbers.

Is any number NOT a sum of some other two numbers in the prior 15 numbers?

Design a parking garage system.

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