Me postulé en línea. El proceso tomó 4 meses. Acudí a una entrevista en X (San Francisco, CA)
Entrevista
Applied online, got a call back quickly. Initial phone screening went well, then a more in-depth screen sharing session to see some sample code. Then... nothing. Followed up and they said they were still interested and would get back to me to schedule an on-site interview. Got told that the position was on hold. Then it was back again. Then the interviewer was going on vacation.
Eventually got sent an invitation for an on-site interview (literally months after originally applying), full day of technical interviews (8 hours, 1 person per hour). Interviews were challenging but fun and involved writing code on my computer, on the whiteboard, sketching out ideas, etc. Each person had a different focus and didn't seem to be from the same department I was applying to, some of them felt kind of like they were just being pulled in to interview people and would rather be working.
Eventually got told that although I did well in the interviews, the position had been put on hold indefinitely due to internal reorg. They were enthusiastic about promising to provide feedback but never did. Several months later the position was re-advertised on the website so I guess it came back and they were going through the whole hiring process again. Either they are very passive aggressive about rejecting candidates or it's just chaos there.
The people were great but the company seemed chaotic and disorganized. This is to be expected for a rapidly growing startup like Twitter in areas like product development, but for standard HR tasks like scheduling interviews it suggests a fundamental level of disorganization that I hope they can figure out as they scale.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
None of the questions were crazy unexpected, no weird riddle questions. I was asked about everything from UNIX admin to processing large data streams (for obvious reasons) to computer science concepts like recursion and binary trees.
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.
Me postulé a través de una recomendación de un empleado. El proceso tomó 2 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en X (Londres, Inglaterra) en abr 2025
Entrevista
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
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Risoluzione di un problema algoritmico che richiedeva l'utilizzo della funzione xor