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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Carlsbad, California

June 1, 2019
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The first interview was a live online coding challenge. I had a question about how to get the least amount of coins for giving change.

After that, I had a 5-6 hour in-person interview on the Carlsbad campus. Two of the interviewers were remote from the Sunnyvale office. All of them had us do whiteboarding/live coding sessions. Questions included:

  • Networking / how does the internet work
  • Fibonacci using recursion and not using recursion
  • Currying
  • Closures
  • Find the highest and lowest sum out of an array
  • Using reduce to change an array of objects to one object
  • Shuffle a deck of cards
  • Implement your own forEach
  • Performance of JS array functions
  • How do you think YouTube works?

Overall, I thought it was not too bad. I thought I did well. I was kind of surprised when I didn't get an offer. There was one interviewer that I think didn't like me; he was condescending and bad at communicating. I would ask him what he wanted, he would give me a one-word answer, and when I tried to continue, he would tell me, "No, not that way." And when I didn't know something, I admitted it, but he wouldn't move on from there.

Questions

  • Networking: How does the internet work?

  • Fibonacci: Using recursion and not using recursion

  • Currying

  • Closures

  • Find the highest and lowest sum out of an array

  • Using reduce to change an array of objects to one object

  • Shuffle a deck of cards

  • Implement your own forEach

  • Performance of JS array functions

  • How do you think YouTube works?

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