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      Software Engineer Interview

      21 Mar 2017
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Toronto, ON
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Block (Toronto, ON) in Feb 2017

      Interview

      Two rounds of over the phone technical questions - usual data structures and algorithms types of questions. Then an on site with 4 more rounds of the same types of questions done in a peer programming environment. Process was fine as I had to travel but the experience since then has been quite negative. Have not written a review here before but after reading a previous experience getting reimbursed feel that I too should write about my experience getting reimbursed. Took about 4-5 emails before finally getting in touch with their reimbursement dept and then/now....getting told next day the funds will be transfered which to this date has not happened. Not only that I had to submit receipts twice as they lost my initial ones - so be warned to keep yours around. I write this to others that have to travel to be warned ahead on what to expect on getting paid back.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Data/structures centered
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      Block response
      9y
      Hi, Thank you for taking the time to write about your experience interviewing for the Software Engineer role at Square. We were extremely disappointed to read about your reimbursement process — definitely not cool, and we're really sorry. We'll discuss your feedback with the accounting team immediately. We will work to make sure that our reimbursement team is notified and we will make sure they understand the urgency of quick reimbursements for the future. Last year, we implemented a candidate experience survey and we are using those results and Glassdoor feedback to continuously improve our candidate experience. Again, we're very sorry about the experience. At Square, we are always striving to provide the best candidate experience possible and your post will help us improve the process. Thank you for sharing and helping us continually improve the interview experience. Best, The Square Talent Team

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