I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at Beyond, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT) in Jan 2010
Interview
Recruiter convinced me to interview despite my better judgement. Overstock has a bad rep locally as a bit of a sweat shop and one that tends to lay people off regularly. My recruiter said things had changed in the past few years. I arrived around 11am and met with 2 senior level guys. They had me write code for a binary tree traversal on the board and asked a series of questions. After that, 2 different guys took me to lunch. Lunch seemed geared around getting to know me as a person and didn't involve and traditional interview questions. It was very casual. After lunch, I got a small tour of the building and met with 3 other guy who grilled me technically for a while. Lastly, I met with a higher up (VP type) and was given the Overstock sales pitch. Overall, I thought the interview was fairly easy despite being a 4 hour ordeal.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a binary sorted tree of ints, write code (java) on the board to traverse the tree to determine if a given value is in the tree.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Beyond, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT) in Apr 2019
Interview
Doing online interview would be painful if you are talking to a guy with a strong accent especially when they are using a poor microphone. The whole process is not smooth as it should be, but obviously the company did not really care much about it as it is more like a process to train those new recruits how to screen for candidates.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Beyond, Inc. in Oct 2015
Interview
Interview is standard technical 2-3 rounds. First got phone interview. During my phone interview I was asked lot about java concepts, collections, threads , concurrency issue, concurrent collections along with my previous project experience (went into details how was stuff implemented). Then was called onsite for 3 round interview. Onsite interview has 1 coding interview with lot of follow up question. Coding question was quite simple ( write program to find element in BST) which I completed in 10 min. For the remaining time they asked me about API gateways, load balancer and about my projects. Second round was SQL join related query and was told to design db given a employee - company scenario and afterwards the complexity was increased. Also I was told to write various SQL queries. second part of second interview was to question related to class design was given multiple design and was asked to select the best one and justify. The last interview was with Director of Engineering, it was simple behavioral question.
I applied through university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Beyond, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT) in Apr 2015
Interview
Great Interview Phone Interview. Was asked about my past experience and the basic H.R. interview questions. Didn't feel rushed and I was allowed to ask as many questions that came to mind. Surprisingly, the recruiter knew a lot about the role and could provide me with a lot of detailed information and what I could expect. One draw back from the conversation was when I mentioned relocation? It was not…
