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      Curriculum Engineer Interview

      7 Mar 2016
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at MongoDB in Mar 2016

      Interview

      Spoke with the first interviewer for 30 minutes over the phone. The conversation was friendly, but a bit one-sided, as I only was able to ask him about one minute of questions during the entire phone call. He then asked me to email him questions I had about the job, and I did, but he took 9 days to respond to them. What is even more concerning is that one of the questions I asked via email was "What is the most important thing you feel is necessary to be a good manager" and he replied "responsiveness". After reading that answer, I unfortunately had to take everything else he said with a grain of salt. The following week, I did a one-hour technical interview with a second interviewer where I typed code into a text editor while the interviewer watched and asked me questions. The technical interview seemed more like a Software Engineering interview, as I was required to build fairly complex programs from scratch in front of the interviewer, which seemed a bit inappropriate for a Curriculum Developer interview and seemed a bit too academic as well. The company should probably modify the interview process where code samples with typos/errors could be presented to the job candidate and then the candidate could try to find the typos/errors. Or, the candidate could tell the interviewer what the output of a certain algorithm would be. Those interested in the job should also keep the following in mind: 1. The company is going to promote a new manager by September 2016, so the current manager will most likely "not" be your boss for long. 2. The department is dominated by former college professors and researchers, so you will need to be comfortable working inside a very "academic" culture. 3. According to the interviewer, you are expected to work 50-60 hours per week in this role.

      Interview questions [5]

      Question 1

      Find the most repeated character in string of random characters
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      take an array of sorted numbers and return each number squared and sorted. Be sure to account for negative numbers.
      1 Answer

      Question 3

      How would you create a method/way to determine how to know if a person is likely to answer a test question correctly.
      Answer question

      Question 4

      Semaphore vs Mutex; Process vs Thread; Vector vs Linked List; What make an algorithm efficient? How would you build a curriculum to educate people about lobsters?
      Answer question

      Question 5

      return files in a folder that contain the number "100" in the filename using linux commands; return text files in a folder that contain the number "100" in the text body using linux commands
      Answer question
      5

      Other Curriculum Engineer interview reviews for MongoDB

      Curriculum Engineer Interview

      28 Apr 2016
      Anonymous employee
      New York, NY
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at MongoDB (New York, NY) in Mar 2016

      Interview

      A friend referred me to the company. I was contacted by a recruiter the same day via email where we setup a phone call for the following day. After chatting with her she setup I had a technical phone interview two days later. After passing the technical screen they flew me out a few weeks later for an onsite. My onsite consisted of 6 interviews (HR, technical, behavioral, technical, lunch, manager). The next day they called me with an offer.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      How would you design a curriculum to teach X?
      Answer question
      1

      Curriculum Engineer Interview

      15 Mar 2016
      Anonymous interview candidate
      New York, NY
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at MongoDB (New York, NY) in Mar 2016

      Interview

      I did an introductory call and then an in-person visit that involved several interviews. It was mostly the usual stuff, although I have to say this was the longest in-person interview session I've ever done - it dragged on all day. They bought me lunch from a local deli, which was nice, but it was still a long day.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      They asked me about "decorators" in Python
      2 Answers

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