I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Pocket Gems (Santa Cruz, CA) in Feb 2018
Interview
I applied online on Feb 2018, got an online test on HackerRank within a week.
It was an 80min time-limiting test with two sections. One section took 50min, had two algorithms coding problems. For me, one is an easy dynamic programming problem, another one is a sorting and string process problem which is easy too. Another section took 30min. This section let me write a review report of a snippet of poorly written codes in Java.
Overall I think it was a good experience. I think the problems were easy and I did nothing wrong. I wonder why I'm rejected. Maybe they are really strict on candidates and expect absolute perfect answers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. easy DP algorithm problem
2. easy string manipulation and sorting problem
3. code review
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