I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at AppDynamics
Interview
The interviewer was looking for strong core java experience. He asked me to implement LRU cache in java. He was helpful in terms of giving me hints and directing the interview. I will advice revising java basics and design patterns for this interview.
I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at AppDynamics (San Francisco, CA) in Sep 2014
Interview
I had one University on-campus interview, then an on-site interview in the San Francisco office. The entire process was phenomenal! Out of all the interviews I went through this round of job search, AppDynamics was one of the most pleasant and interesting as well in terms of interview questions.
The recruiter was friendly and helpful... The ion-campus interview was also good. Questions were reasonable and open-ended - the interviewer seemed more interested in getting me to share what I know and have experienced than to test me on specific programming trivia.
I had five on-site interviews, and each one posed interesting problems. The interview questions were again reasonable, and quite interesting - I most appreciated that they seemed to apply to real problems the company works with on a daily basis. Each one composed of some type of problem, and then some white board coding and discussion. Everyone was also quite open about telling me about how the company is structured, what teams there are, and the types of work they are doing.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design questions related to distributed scheduling.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at AppDynamics (Champaign, IL) in Sep 2014
Interview
I got an interview at one of their info sessions on our campus. The interview was the very next day. The interview was easy, if you know your data structures you should be fine. I had an off day I guess. Got back a rejection within a week. Overall a great experience, it took one week for me to hear back from them so definitely quick and painless. Seems like a good company to work for, they have no competitors and are a late stage IPO companies so if you can get some RSUs, it will definitely be worth a lot.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Mostly simple coding questions. The worst involved using graphs.