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      Software Engineer Interview

      4 Apr 2013
      Anonymous interview candidate
      San Francisco, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 5 months. I interviewed at X (San Francisco, CA) in Nov 2012

      Interview

      Short version: The most disorganized, disrespectful, and unprofessional hiring process I've ever experienced. Avoid. LONG version: I applied online, and was contacted by someone from HR to solve a simple coding question and send my solution by email. After that, had a phone interview, had to code some algorithms on a shared document. Nothing complex, but it didn't go well because I went in completely unprepared, and realized my CS basics had got quite rusty over the years. Nevertheless, to my surprise, had a second phone interview, same type of questions, and this time things went much better, as I had been refreshing the typical algorithms and data structures material. I was called onsite, and had a full day of interviews with several members of the engineering team. Again, same type of problems, related to algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis, the usual things. Before this, I had been preparing even more, and I think my performance was pretty good. Up to this point everything went super well, the people were nice, great atmosphere at the office, a very good experience. Now HR takes over, and the chaos starts. So after some time someone from HR contacts me, and says they're working on an offer for me. Great news! A few emails and phone calls were exchanged, discussing possible offer numbers, locations, etc. I'm told all is set, I'd be getting an offer very very soon. Still great news. The "getting an offer very soon" is repeated week after week, but there's always something that's delaying the process, or someone that we're waiting for. So, I wait, and wait some more. More than 2 months pass, always with regular contact with HR people, and still I'm told everything is being taken care of. A different HR person takes over, and apparently he is clueless about who I am, how I got there, and basically doesn't know anything about what happened so far. But after some weird phone conversations, the status is the same: "yeah, you'll have an offer in hand this week". Then he calls me and says that the previous recruiter made some errors with my process, and they are rechecking everything. Needless to say that I'm shocked by this, but what can I do... Apparently we're back on ground zero or something. The recruiter didn't remember what we had discussed on the phone a week before, and asks me ridiculous questions like: "Are you a new grad?" (I've graduated more than 12 years ago, as is obvious if he just had glanced over my CV); "Did you interview at our office?" (excuse me?!) This made me wonder, have they lost my file? Have they lost my interview scores? Do they know who I am? What happened? I was almost in a panic, but still, we keep contact and I wait for some progress. Again, the same old, "we're waiting for person X to do Y", and later "if you don't hear from me by day X contact me". Day X comes. No feedback. I email the recruiter. No answer. Two weeks pass. More emails. Still no answer. Recruiter contacts me, and says they are still "trying to work on this". Finally, after FIVE months of this, recruiter contacts me and says that they are NOT going forward with an offer. This whole process was just a huge waste of time, made me lose other opportunities, and caused immense stress on me and my family (we would be moving to San Francisco from Europe, then suddenly we were left hanging on uncertainty for months). Very very negative experience.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

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      Anonymous interview candidate
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      Neutral experience
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      Application

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      Interview

      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.

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      Anonymous interview candidate
      London, England
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

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