The interview with the recruiter and hiring manager were great. They were very friendly and informative. However, the next round with Product Design was not great. The Product Designers were very robotic, rushed through questions, and asked awkward follow-ups. It almost seemed like they were new to the interviewing process. I know for a fact that I had solid responses, so the interview about them not proceeding forward was surprising. One of my main concerns was that the products they build are solely for Cox Automotive. It doesn't seem like a sustainable business model long term. An additional concern was their pushback on salary expectations - they do not seem to be competitive.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about your favorite product. Why is it your favorite product, etc.?
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Fyusion
Interview
The interview with the hiring manager was fantastic and also a great person to talk to. Followed by multiple rounds with others. Followed by a full-fledged product presentation for which I took out at least 6 hours to work on in detail and present it to them. Everything went well and got great feedback for my presentation from the hiring manager. Salary expectations were not met since no RSU's or anything. However, there was no response from the team but just a simple email saying that they won't proceed further. The recruiter used to call me anytime post-work hours to get info from me if required without scheduling a time to talk. After asking the recruiter to have detailed feedback over the phone call. I didn't hear back at all. I spent at least 20+ hours behind this process and all I got was just an email stating a "No". Please improve the hiring process if you want good talent from the valley.
I applied in-person. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Fyusion
Interview
This company approached me.
1 - Initial Phone conversation
2 -Offline coding challenge
We spent about an hour on initial call, then they offered a coding challenge. I declined coding challenge. I don't think it's fair for the company to approach a candidate, then offer a coding challenge that lasts hours. I don't need this.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Initial Phone conversation was standard -- what I did, do I like the position. Lasted an hour.
Here is the offline coding challenge:
1 -- The example code computes the inplaceTranspose of a Matrix, but it has some bugs. Fix the bug, and write a test which would have failed before fixing the bug.
2 -- The code in example2.cpp loads numerical data from some files. Please fix the bugs, and write appropriate tests in testFileIO.cpp.
3 -- The example code simulates an authentication class. The correct credentials are provided in the code, but there's a bug in Authentication.cpp which causes incorrect behavior. Do NOT fix the bug in Authentication.cpp.
4 -- Write a program to find peaks in the data file. How exactly you define "peaks" is up to you, but please document this.