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Platform Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

November 1, 2014
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I had submitted my resume through LinkedIn and was contacted by a recruiter who did the initial screening of my interests and if my skillset matched the requirements. Though I didn't have any experience in Node.js/Ruby on Rails (their primary stack), they were pretty open about it, which is a big plus.

I was scheduled for an initial phone screen with the hiring manager, who outlined the products and the goals of the team in particular. They also asked a simple algorithmic question: removing duplicate words in a string with a minor tweak, solvable in any programming language. I solved it in Python and was immediately scheduled for an onsite the following week.

The onsite was pretty straightforward. The HR briefed me about the interview schedule. There were two technical interviews, followed by a system design interview and a general chat with the hiring manager.

Questions

Nothing unexpected. Just revisit your CS fundamentals and be sure of some of the common data structures, such as lists, queues, stacks, etc., and sorting algorithms, LRU cache design, and alike.

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