One telephone interview. 5 technical interviews on-site. Questions were very straightforward and simple on algorithms, os concepts.
Most of the interviewers were good apart from two guys in which one needed to improve his interviewing skills and the other had no reaction to whatever I was saying to him. The first guy asked me how locking is implemented in distributed file system. I am from replication background, and I was a bit surprised that he choose to ask me this question instead of testing me on file system locking fundamentals. Also instead of driving me to the right path during the course of interview, he was just saying "it won't work" for everything I say. Sometimes, I felt this was more of a competition between me and him than a interview. Also his question was very abstract and I had to ask him a lot of questions to understand what he was trying to say. Clearly, I felt he needed to improve his interviewing skills and also communication skills.
The other interviewer had no-reaction on this face to whatever I said. Not sure if he was interested in interviewing me. I did solve the problem in the end but after trying a lot to get some reaction from him. I got demotivated during the course of interview with this experience.
Overall, the experience was mixed but I felt some interviewers needed to improve their interviewing skills.
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Other Member Of Technical Staff interview reviews for Tintri
I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Tintri (Mountain View, CA) in Jan 2016
Interview
First round was a 1 hour phone screen interview with two people. It was a basic algorithm check and my projects overview related to the role.
Then I was called onsite for approx 4 hour 45 minutes interview with 7 people. All interviewers tested capabilities in different fields such as programming exercise, virtualization, linux basics, school projects, etc. It was a nice experience as I was introduced to people with different roles within the same project group.
The recruiters were very quick and managed the overall interview as per my comfort.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
String manipulation programming exercise, Linux basics, virtualization basics
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Tintri (Mountain View, CA) in May 2015
Interview
Phone screen - online coding - and then onsite 1:1 with 6 team members. Not that positive experience overall. All the team members had their list of interview questions. And the main goal for everyone was to have them answered. So they didn't spend any time in asking about background or past work experience or project explanation. In a way, it's kind of practically understandable as being a startup, the main focus is on checking the candidate rather than general chat.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Lots of logic and algorithms based questions. Binary Trees, Linear regression expression, Hash tables, Recursive programming questions.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Tintri in May 2015
Interview
Initially HR mailed me about an opportunity at Tintri. I was excited to hear about the opportunity and since lot of my college alumni were already there, I heard positive reviews about company. But HR doesn't respond to schedule interview after that inspite of lot of emails remainding him. After 4 weeks they finally got back but didn't apologize. They said they wanted to schedule a phone interview, first telephone exchange round went well. They said they wanted to take me onsite but after that I never heard back. I didn't go ahead and declined as I didn't want to work for a company who doesn't respect other's time.
