I applied through other source. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at empowr (San Diego, CA) in Oct 2017
Interview
Empowr's VP reached out and mentioned I had a good background for an open Software Engineer position. We had a brief phone interview discussing the company and my background. I was asked to come in the following week for an in-person interview with the lead engineer and DBA. I was also asked to complete a take-home coding exercise before the onsite, but was only given a 1 day heads up...
After the onsite interview, I was asked to come in a few days later to speak with the Founder who gave a history and vision for the company. He also gave me a book he wrote.
Overall the process was pretty standard, but I got the feeling that the company, despite being around for many years, was not doing so well. The platform itself did not seem legitimate.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a matrix of characters and a dictionary of words, find all non-distinct occurrences of words in the matrix that are found in the dictionary. Applies horizontally, vertically, diagonally, and the reverse of each direction.
They kept rescheduling my initial interview, which was over the phone. The interview itself was fine, but then they asked me to design a solution to a word coding puzzle before scheduling an in-person interview. Well, they were displeased with my solution so I never got an in-person interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you rate your C# skills on a scale of 1-10?
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at empowr (San Diego, CA) in Jul 2018
Interview
It was really straight forward just basic question regarding the company and the technology they used the interviewer was really good at explaining what the company does in detail.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at empowr
Interview
1. Contacted by recruiter via LinkedIn
2. Initial phone screen with HR rep
3. Take-home coding challenge
4. On-site interview
The overall process was pretty standard based on interview experiences with other companies. However, after the on-site interview (in which I thought I did pretty well) I received zero further communication regarding whether I had passed the interview or not. I reached out twice to the HR rep who I had been working with throughout the interview process (and who normally would respond to emails quickly), and received no response.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The on-site interview involved a graph / path-finding problem.
