Me postulé a través de un reclutador. Acudí a una entrevista en Whatnot en sep 2022
Entrevista
Heard about the role through a recruiter. The recruiter was pleasant, and after a couple of weeks, I received a request to apply formally for the role. Another few days and the first round was scheduled. I felt good vibes from the first round, and the second round was scheduled. The second round was a relatively easy algorithm/live coding challenge. I liked that guy as well.
For the third round, it was a whiteboard/systems design challenge, which I felt confident in. Then a product design interview immediately afterwards. The product design interview was performed by a junior engineer whose questions weren't clear. After a few days, the feedback was that I had 1 minor flaw in my system design (which, if he'd asked, I would have explained the difference between an iterator and an array in the selected database) and that the product interview didn't contain enough new ideas.
It seems like a junior engineer with 3 years of experience isn't the best judge of the skillset of 10+ years of experience. It's unfortunate to have spent so much time interviewing only to be assessed by someone who doesn't have the skills to evaluate experience. I usually have an attitude of wanting to learn something from the interviewers. This turns out to have just been a waste of time.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Design an API to handle 1,000,000 push notifications.
only through email to arrange and follow up, not very clear procedure, and you may receive many emails from many people and some maybe system emails, I guess it's a small company, not well arranged for this
Very clear interview process and a great recruiting team and a cool company.
However, the work isn't special but the interviewers have a high standard for some reason -- any basic tenured dev can do the work lol apparently looking for "cream of the crop"
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Basic Software design question -> explain building a web api and then some follow-ups
Coding interview: merge two arrays and sort them based on their squared value: [1,3,7] and [4,10,11] -> simple solution with two pointers
remove duplicates in a string
Some behavioral questions
After going through several recruitment stages, including a home task challenge, the feedback received was vague and unhelpful. As usual, there was no transparency or clear explanation regarding the reasons behind rejecting the application.