I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at AppNexus (New York, NY) in Mar 2013
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter through LinkedIn. The next day, I had a phone call with the HR, then a week later, I had a phone interview with an engineer on some technical questions. Three days later, I came to their office for a full day of interview. I got an offer the following week.
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
You have an analog clock with two hands, one for the hour and one for the minute. Given a time of the day, what is the angle between the two hands?
Some SQL questions:
- find the elements which are in a table but not in the other one
- use some aggregate function with GROUP BY/HAVING
- given a table with several creatives and all their versions (creative_id, version, ...), get the latest version of each creative.
Write a program that counts from 1 to 100.
For each number, display fizz if the number is divisible by 3 and buzz if the number is divisible by 5.
The output should be something like:
1
2
3 fizz
4
5 buzz
6 fizz
7
8
9 fizz
10 buzz
11
12 fizz
13
14
15 fizz buzz
...
I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at AppNexus (Portland, OR) in May 2018
Interview
Painfully boring and lengthy phone call. This was not an interview, it was an interrogation. Seriously one of the most boring phone calls I've ever had. The hiring manager seemed like he'd never done an interview in his life.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Lots of questions about basic javascript stuff, way under my pay grade.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at AppNexus (New York, NY)
Interview
One phone screen interview and 4 on-site interviews (coding, algorithm oriented & behavioral). Interviews were of average difficulty but dealt a lot with optimized algorithm oriented. Friendly visit to the office, stocked kitchens/cafeteria - Had a fun day interviewing!
I applied online. I interviewed at AppNexus (New York, NY) in Feb 2018
Interview
It was a phone screen. I talked to a technical guy, who asked a few reasonable questions. He was polite and patient. I managed to answer the questions. There was also a coding part, which I screwed up -- made a few mistakes on the way. Not to sound like an excuse, but it is probably because it was my first time coding on a white board.
The man was patient and helpful. Seems that it is no so bad, when you know how to approach it and usually they help you a bit, because it seems they are also human, not acting like robots.
Maybe because of these mistakes I did not get to the next stage, but it is a good lesson for md too -- need to practice apparently.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement one of the string to number conversion functions or number to string on a while board online. Pretty simple for a good 1/2 hour work.
