Me postulé en línea. El proceso tomó 3 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Savvas Learning Company en nov 2022
Entrevista
Was told to bring a code sample to present for the interview. The interview was also a group interview with two other candidates (should have been the first red flag). There were two interviewers, one was a current engineer, the other was the software engineer director. The director did not say much during the interview, and the current engineer was doing most of the talking. I found him to be very condescending during the interview, and he would chuckle or scoff when I explained something which I did not appreciate. I felt humiliated during this interview process, and I wish I left halfway through. It doesn't end there. They then tell us that there is a 'second phase' interview which was not told to us in any emails I had received. They gave us this large problem regarding API calls and data bases and had all of us candidates (there were 3 of us including myself) solve it in front of them. It took another hour on top of the first hour of the interview we were told about. I found this to be ridiculous. Complete lack of transparency, unprofessional, and waste of time. I wish they had told us there would be two phases to the interview instead of just springing it on us. I spent time preparing the code sample as is, and then they go and do this second phase sneakily. I am so surprised at their arrogance for an education company. I did not appreciate the interviewer, or the lack of transparency. And surprise, surprise, I did not hear from them after that interview and got ghosted. They didn't even have the decency to send me a rejection email after all of that time and preparation I did. So unprofessional all around. Absolutely ridiculous. I do not recommend interviewing at this company to anyone. Since they treat their potential candidates like a piece of crap and don't value the candidate's time I can't imagine what it is like at the company.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Solve a database and API call Bring a code sample to show
Me postulé en línea. El proceso tomó 4 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Savvas Learning Company
Entrevista
Was contacted by a recruiter where I was told I would have two interviews. The first interview was pretty easy we talked about my resume and my schooling. We ended the interview with only one technical question which was to describe a depth first search. The interviewer was very nice and I enjoyed talking to them. The next and final round was a 2 hour long interview with 3 other candidates and 2 employees, a current software engineer and a software designer I believe. We were told about the first half of the interview which was to bring a piece of code to discuss and go through, but the second half was unexpected and I was not made aware of. The second half was a system design question going over API calls and creating database schemas. I think this second half definitely needs to be communicated to applicants, so they can prepare. Other than that, everyone was very friendly throughout the interview process.
Me postulé en línea. El proceso tomó 6 meses. Acudí a una entrevista en Savvas Learning Company en mar 2023
Entrevista
I interviewed initially in January for a job that didn’t start until June. It was a mostly behavioral interview and it had one technical question at the end, which I bombed. I was told they were not continuing with me. To my surprise in March I received an email addressed to someone else, scheduling their second round interview. I replied saying there must be a mistake and I wasn’t meant to receive this email because I was rejected and the name was completely incorrect. The recruiter replied “sorry for the confusion, they had a few more spots available and changed their mind about you”. So naturally I’m excited and start to prepare for this second round technical group interview. Myself and another candidate met with two developers on different teams that both worked at Savvas. We were expected to both present a coding project that we had previously completed, as well as solve a large database management project together with the other candidate. I absolutely did amazing in that part of the interview and was basically teaching my fellow candidate about database stuff during the process. We both got super good feedback from the interviewers. Come to June, I haven’t heard anything. Not even a rejection email which is strange because they bothered to send one before. I reached out to the recruiter about the job and was completely ghosted. Overall this interview process was a complete waste of my time, over a 6 month period. The recruiter was completely unprofessional in their email contact with me and I think the fact that she sent an email not meant for me is unacceptable. I basically think they wanted to interview this one guy a second time and used me as a fake candidate to see how he worked in a group. I hope they treat their employees far better than they treat their candidates, but it seems unlikely.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Explain binary tree stuff. Show a coding project you worked on. Explain how you would arrange and manage a database given a prompt.
