I applied through university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Indeed (San Francisco, CA) in Sept 2018
Interview
On Campus Interview -> Hackerrank -> Onsite
Thought I did very well on the on-site, but received a rejection letter 2 weeks after and don't know why. It seems that Indeed has relatively easy interviews but landing an offer could be very difficult. Here is a summary of my performance during the on-site interview:
Onsite HackerRank Programming Challenge (1.5hr): Perfect solution in python, passed 12/12 test cases.
WhiteBoard 1 (1 hr): Provided sub-optimal solution with c++ code, optimal solution without code (due to time constraint)
WhiteBoard 2 (1 hr): Provided perfect solution with c++ code.
WhiteBoard 3 (1 hr): Provided suboptimal solution with c++ code and optimal solution with c++ code after some hints.
Hopefully this will be helpful as a rough benchmark and congrats to whoever landed an offer at Indeed.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic data structures, graphs. (Exact question not disclosed due to NDA)
Only did the 1st round. It was a medium Leetcode question. The interview was only for 30 min. Their compiler threw an unexpected error, which even the interviewers couldn't fix
Terrible scheduling. Difficult company to deal with. Will not contact again. Pay was below industry average for the location. Misleading job description. Benefits below standard. Hope everyone avoids this place
In total, there were five interviews. Three of them were more technical and the other two or more about your background. The technical interviews were pretty standard simple to medium Leetcode questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was asked about how we kept metrics in my previous job. When I told him that this was something we didn’t really do, he continued to harp on this question for the entirety of the interview, as if it was something that would be very difficult for me to learn.