I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Robin Systems in Feb 2020
Interview
Initial call with hiring manager and 2 rounds of the onsite interview of 2 hours each. I did not get the offer, I felt their process is very inefficient and glad I am rejected.
I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Robin Systems (San Jose, CA) in Jan 2019
Interview
Process is just like as any other bay area startup. No processes involved. So very quick on setting up interview and response times. There was one telephonic round and then on-site with 5 engineers and also with CTO.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
General question regarding kubernetes and containers. Few design question as any other software engineering role. All people came out as very smart people. Liked the vision of the company.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Robin Systems (Santa Clara, CA) in Jan 2019
Interview
Absolutely pathetic. They ask very difficult questions and unrealistic. But expect people to join for half of the big company's salary.
I thought I did pretty well. CTO Partha Seetala is a really bad person. He has a preconceived notion about people from certain undergrad and grad schools. He thinks he is too smart but he is not actually. Its just another goofy k8s distribution company and I dont think they will do anything better in future. They might get acquired by some dumb company as we have lots of fool people here in the industry. But technical aspects wise, this company is not going anywhere. Glad that I did not get an offer. Working with that kind of CTO is aweful and I strongly encourage to look for other company if you get offer from them.
I hope they should change arrogant, oversmart, nonperforming CTO like Partha.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to build restartability in your system ? How would you design distributed hash table?