I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at X (London, England) in Jun 2019
Interview
Very negative experience. Reached the final on-site stage, after which I was told that I will
know the outcome by the following week. As I had other offers outstanding, I made it clear to the Twitter recruiter that I need to know as soon as possible. However they got back to me a MONTH after the interview saying that they will not proceed with an offer. I asked for more detailed feedback but no one replied to my email.
I spend half a day at their office, meeting multiple people, having multiple interviews, did a video interview, a coding test, and literally got no feedback at all. Very unprofessional.
Stages:
- Recruiter phone screening
- Technical 1 hour video interview with an engineer of the team
- Coding challenge, to do at your own time (of easy-average difficulty)
- On-site interview. Three 1-hour sessions, including system design, coding and cultural fit
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to spread database query load across multiple instances/containers of a database service?