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Software Engineer New Grad Interview Experience

November 29, 2014
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I had an initial 20-minute HackerRank coding challenge, which was fairly simple and straightforward. Then, I had one phone screen with an engineer.

After the phone screen, I was invited for an onsite interview.

Their onsite process is very average:

  • Company tour
  • Four rounds of interviews

They concentrate a lot on cultural fit. I thought I was applying for a more general software engineering position, but they asked me a lot of questions about HTTP protocols. I wasn't informed that I would be specifically interviewing with their web team.

Questions

  1. Phone screen: Given a corpus of a review, split it into sentences. Make sure to take care of ellipses, question marks, and exclamation marks.

Onsite 1: JavaScript question: HTTP protocols – their significance and difference. Onsite 2: Implement a Most Recently Used (MRU) Cache. Onsite 3: Given an iterator interface for one word, extend it to implement an iterator function for two words. Onsite 4: Implement a trie. (Write the API and code for inserting into a trie).

All of the rounds were interspersed with cultural fit questions.

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Pass Rate

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