I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Elementum (Mountain View, CA) in Aug 2013
Interview
I got the interview through a recruiter. I was scheduled for a phone interview. The interview was done by a Lead Engineer who was friendly and to the point. After that I was called for a in person interview. They have a very nice office in Mountain View, CA. HR lady was very friendly. Then I met with their Lead and Product Manager who were very nice and professional. I was asked questions about my background and some architectural questions which I answered without a problem. Then came two developers who very pretty young. The attitude of them were super unprofessional. Looked like one of them, wanted to prove a point. He didn't eve know the answers to the question, but wanted to prove I was wrong. He asked me a algorithm question which wrote immediately but the guy didn't agree. I even challenged the guy and he seemed clueless. He asked me a lot of irrelevant questions which made no sense. He laughed at everything I said or wrote and would cut me off on everything I said. The guy even tore my resume in front of me saying that he would trash it anyways.. At that point, I told him not to waste my time and let me go. Then, the other guy intervened and said he didn't mean it that way. Anyways, long story short, the interview process with these two monkeys was completely unprofessional. God knows whats going to happen if you worked with these guys. It is not that the guy knew a lot of technology but was certain that he wont hire anyone who is smarter that him. I would stay away from these bunch of jokers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a number, find the sum of all multiples of 3 & 5. -- the guy didnt the algo himself and wanted me to use the formula. What is a Size of the ArrayList Object that contains 100K Long objects. He wanted the exact number. I don't know how many times one needs such a information on a daily basis. What is volatile? What is closed and open hashing? I explained Separate chaining and Linear probing, the guy didnt know it is the same as what i explained. He said java uses closed hashing which is again wrong as it uses open hashing.
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Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a string find all permutations. Given a value and denominations,find least denominations to get change.
