I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at X (San Francisco, CA) in Feb 2018
Interview
After speaking with a Twitter recruiter and an introductory call, did two screening calls and an onsite, with about a week between each phase. The first call was high-level experience based, but also spent some time describing the team structure. The second call was more technical, and included a screen-shared coding problem. The onsite was broken into four one hour parts with a break for lunch. Each part was conducted by two engineers. Three parts focused on white-boarded coding problems with an algorithms/data structures focus, while one was more soft-skills and experience focused (name a contribution you made to a team you were proud of, name a mistake you made at a previous job and steps you took to fix it, et cetera). All parts had a ten minute section for questions from the candidate.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
More or less what you'd expect. Interview Cake was good prep. A few questions were more architecture focused and experience-based.
Phone screen, followed by two coding rounds, one system design, and one HM/behavioral round. Prepare with LeetCode tagged questions related to data structures, algorithms, and system design topics. Prepare for Behavioural in STAR method.
Went through two screenings and virtual onsite. Technical team members were friendly and great to speak with. Recruiters were pretty awful - the one that set up the virtual onsite gave everybody different zoom links and trying to find the correct room to join really cut into my interview time and made me stressed out during the VO. Main recruiter scheduled a phone call to discuss results after the VO for when it was past midnight in my timezone but never called or responded to my followup.
To the recruiter: you don't need to try to keep me warm by scheduling a phone call and ghosting me when I only asked you whats the decision timeline. If its rejection just email to let me know instead of wasting more of my time especially when its late in my timezone.
In general this would've been a positive experience if the recruiters weren't so bad.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at X (London, England) in Apr 2025
Interview
Ho effettuato un colloquio conoscitivo con HR dopodiché una sessione di live coding e domande tecniche con il responsabile dell'area. Domande vertevano su vari algoritmi e complessità in termini di tempo e spazio
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Risoluzione di un problema algoritmico che richiedeva l'utilizzo della funzione xor
