I had applied to Twitter a few months back but they rejected my application since I was an EE major. Then in April they had a contest on InterviewStreet, I finished in the top 10 in that contest and they contacted me and scheduled a phone interview.
The interviewer asked some simple coding questions:
* Reverse the order of words of a sentence in place
* Generate a random sentence using markov chains
After I answered them quickly, he told me that there will be a further set of telephonic interviews and the topics I should expect. The next day I get a canned response from the HR saying that "they don't have a match for me now". Really weird process. I followed them up to ask for some feedback and there was no response.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
* Reverse the order of words of a sentence in place
* Generate a random sentence using markov chains
Phone screen, followed by two coding rounds, one system design, and one HM/behavioral round. Prepare with LeetCode tagged questions related to data structures, algorithms, and system design topics. Prepare for Behavioural in STAR method.
Went through two screenings and virtual onsite. Technical team members were friendly and great to speak with. Recruiters were pretty awful - the one that set up the virtual onsite gave everybody different zoom links and trying to find the correct room to join really cut into my interview time and made me stressed out during the VO. Main recruiter scheduled a phone call to discuss results after the VO for when it was past midnight in my timezone but never called or responded to my followup.
To the recruiter: you don't need to try to keep me warm by scheduling a phone call and ghosting me when I only asked you whats the decision timeline. If its rejection just email to let me know instead of wasting more of my time especially when its late in my timezone.
In general this would've been a positive experience if the recruiters weren't so bad.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at X (London, England) in Apr 2025
Interview
Ho effettuato un colloquio conoscitivo con HR dopodiché una sessione di live coding e domande tecniche con il responsabile dell'area. Domande vertevano su vari algoritmi e complessità in termini di tempo e spazio
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Risoluzione di un problema algoritmico che richiedeva l'utilizzo della funzione xor
