I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at ThousandEyes in Apr 2017
Interview
Got a message on LinkedIn from the company recruiter. I showed interest and the recruiter sent my resume to the hiring manager, who was wanted to continue the interview process with me. I got a take home coding project-- if it was reviewed favorably by ThousandEyes, they were gonna call me for an onsite interview. Since I had an offer pending, they expedited the reviewing the project and got back to me. The recruiter told me that they didn't review my project favorably and didn't wish to go on. I spent a good amount of hours on that project and wanted some sort of feedback on it. I didn't get any. I have turned in multiple coding assignments of the type at various companies, and I have always had positive feedback. Given the time investment for this project, I wanted some feedback so I at least get something out of it. I believe if a company is going to require 8 hours of your time for a project, some feedback should be courtesy.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was given an 8 hour project that required me to build a restful backend api given a set of requirements.
I found the question fair but challenging. While I understood the fundamentals, my lack of experience with certain advanced techniques kept me from fully passing. I'll focus on refining these areas to improve my performance in the future. Thank you for the opportunity.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at ThousandEyes in Jun 2022
Interview
Initial Leetcode - style Interview followed by on site
On site consisted of another coding round, systems design, and behavioral. I was not in the right headspace and did poorly on the first coding round. They allowed me to schedule one more coding round to "make up" for my first failing (despite passing through the initial coding round). The "make up" round was an extremely vague question with no example inputs/outputs and despite trying to communicate with the interviewer on the question, he told me another requirement of the problem which completely changed how I would have designed the solution 5 minutes before the end of the interview.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Due to the NDA, I will keep it vague.
Leetcode Hard graph problem (Djikstra's but with some tweaks)
A fairly regular software engineer interview process. The first call was with the recruiter. After that, there was a technical round with one of the developers. The response time was also quick.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement a new data structure which can do following
set(key, value)
get(key)
last()
delete(key)
