I applied on the company website during the last week of September 2013. The HR contacted me within a week to schedule interviews.

I was scheduled for two 45-minute Skype video interviews, back-to-back, with two Senior Software Engineers. The interviewers were good.

In the first round, I was asked to talk about myself, my technical background, and the technologies I was comfortable with. Most questions were related to my projects on the resume. I had some side projects that my interviewer was interested in. I had mentioned PHP skills on my resume, so he wanted to know more about that. I told him I only had beginner's experience with it. I was then given a link to a PHP code and was asked to walk him through it. Since he knew my level of PHP knowledge, he welcomed any questions I had regarding the keywords. I did pretty well with a little help from him. They don't expect you to be fluent with any of their technologies but want to see your thinking process. I believe the first round concluded with me asking him a few questions.

In the second round, I had more technical questions. Initially, he introduced himself and talked about his team and the technologies they use. This was more like a conversation where I asked questions in between. Next were the tech questions. Almost all questions were found on Glassdoor. Some that come to mind are: How a website works, what happens when you enter a URL, DNS, some SQL commands, and OOPs concepts.

The next question was to convert an integer between 1-999 into words (like you write on a bank check). There were a few follow-up questions on this. He only wanted to know how I would approach it; he didn't ask me to write any code. Then, again, there were some questions about my projects, and the interview concluded with me asking him a few questions.

No code writing was involved, but you will have to talk about it.

The HR contacted me within two days after these interviews with an offer. The HR was really nice and helpful. I had other offers later, but this one seemed to be the kind of work I wanted and the place I wanted to be.

One or two questions were difficult, but not unexpected, as they could be found on Glassdoor.