Well prepared panel with questions that aimed at testing ability to resolve technical problems in real time with a small amount of information available and with the pressure of time to deliver on a range of potential solutions
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Pregunta 1
Technical knowledge questions and specific exercises
Me postulé en línea. Acudí a una entrevista en Zocdoc (New York, NY)
Entrevista
I talked to the recruiter, who told me about the role and the company. The next step was to schedule a screening interview. The screening interview was with a senior engineer and it was technical and involved some coding and questions.
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Q: Have you worked in a cross-functional environment?
Me postulé en línea. El proceso tomó 2 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Zocdoc en feb 2022
Entrevista
Pretty standard phone screen: shared my personal background, professional aspirations and then they shared background on company, the position and answered any questions.
Standard tech screen followed-- average difficulty. Anagrams. No curveballs. Friendly interviewer.
Final interview was "virtual on-site". About 5 hours total split across 5 sessions.
First was another pairing challenge that involved trees and file paths.
Then there was a standard behavioral interview.
Following that was an OOP interview-- but it was more of a conversation. The challenge was a standard OOP interview topic, so nothing crazy. Talking about design decisions and SOLID principles, etc will get you points, of course.
Then there was a systems design interview in which I had to design a popular social media site.
Last was a conversation with an engineering manager, which was a conversation about my background and experience. I also got to ask a lot of questions of my interviewer, which was nice.
Overall, I had a positive experience in the interview process. It was a simple straightforward three step process. Didn't waste my time or theirs. The folks at every stage were cool.
Unfortunately I did not prepare enough for the systems design interview and fell flat on my face which, according to the recruiter, was the only reason in the "No Offer".
Overall, still a good experience. The recruiter gave me a lot of feedback afterwards, unprompted. Always reflects well on the company/recruiting process when that happens. Much better than a generic templated rejection email.
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Pregunta 1
Using a language of your choice, create a program that returns a boolean indicating whether two words are anagrams of each other.