I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at X (Dublin, Dublin) in Jul 2019
Interview
Got a contact from a recruiter in Dublin, Ireland. She mentioned the role (internal tools). After sharing my experience and my current salary, she said that two engineers would call me in a week or so. She asked me to not mention the salary with them, which is unusual.
One week after they called me through video and asked me to solve an algorithm challenge. Complete bulshit. They were not interested in my background, the way a think or how would I approach a problem.
One of the engineers copied the problem to sublime text from a PDF and broke the format. They had to fix and explain the problem at the same time.
I understood the problem but was not able to solve it in 30 minutes.
Very bad experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given 2 contracted arrays in the form :
{times, number, times, number .... ]
multiply these array expanding them. Example:
[1,2,2,4] is equivalent to [2, 4, 4]
and
[2,1,1,4] is equivalent to [1, 1, 4]
the result would be [(1x2), (1x4), (4x4)] = [2, 4, 16]
The process quite unique compared to other process. it is combination of coding algorithms and understanding the platform. The technical round requires me to build a project from scratch within 45 mins
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
asked to solve 2 problems, sudoku challenged and build something similar to spotify playlist
First HR call, seems like a very good match with the position, then 60 mins phone screen interview with a pretty standard leetcode medium question, bug free and had good feedback from the interviewer, then the next day received a moving forward email with no surprise, totally waste of time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Standard medium leetcode question(tagged with twitter)
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at X in Aug 2022
Interview
HR screen, standard coding interview. Moved on to the final round. The interviewers could not have been nicer, for the coding or the system design round. The final behavioral management interview was alright as well - they really dig into your past. What annoyed me the most is the recruiter ghosting me. I understand not getting the role, some explanation of why or closing out the loop seems the least courteous thing someone could do. I do not like the whole "let's prep you for the final round of interviews, and make a great candidate experience" schtick, and then proceed to ghost the candidate. Really, a large pool of candidates is fantastic for the company, but I would not imagine anybody would like to simply be left in the dark after preparing for weeks and weeks to hear nothing. Super disappointed more than anything.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
NDA - But Leetcode is a really great prep resource.
