I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Riverbed Technology (San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2016
Interview
Applied in November, got recruiter phone screen in the new year. The she sent me the additional code test below. Got a call in the morning, asked about what the company do then finished in 3 minutes. Then the thank you note came. Maybe that's why they didn't got 2015's best employer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a simple function to verify in a given line of text, that the beginning and ending parenthesis match up. (Any language)
Given a file with ping results from different sources (e.g. See below. To return “173.252.120.68”)
Return the IP address that took >70ms in 3 or more consecutive pings.
64 bytes from 98.138.253.109: icmp_seq=0 ttl=49 time=53.468 ms
64 bytes from 98.138.253.109: icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=53.279 ms
64 bytes from 173.252.120.68: icmp_seq=0 ttl=74 time=70.528 ms
64 bytes from 173.252.120.68: icmp_seq=1 ttl=74 time=70.971 ms
64 bytes from 173.252.120.68: icmp_seq=2 ttl=74 time=70.499 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.196.101: icmp_seq=0 ttl=37 time=61.672 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.196.101: icmp_seq=1 ttl=37 time=61.629 ms
