I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at GOAT Group (Culver City, CA) in Mar 2020
Interview
Was reached out by a recruiter. Interview process consisted of a technical phone screen and then on site interview.
Phone screen was mostly about easy/medium coding challenge and On-site was behavior and Design questions.
Engineers were super nice but I felt like my interview with leadership team was bit weird. The discussion on pros of using monolithic architecture on such a large scale was not at all convincing.
Recruitment couldn’t fulfill their stated commitments on decision but that could be probably due to Corona virus so all good on that part .
Average live coding session, followed by a system design interview and then a conversation with a director. I got through all of the rounds. I found the system design interviews and interviewers to be the least informative ones and provided very little guidance throughout. Despite the fact that I knew about this system design question in previous reviews, the interviewers were a little overcomplicating things and wanted me to think in a very abstract way. This might have just been my interviewers though.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a lottery system for picking a winner of a sneaker release.
