I applied online. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Hopper in Jan 2020
Interview
HR phone screening call which was then quickly followed by an invite to do an online Coding Challenge (2 hr hackerrank problem). Unfortunately my solution wasn't good enough to proceed. Felt like I could've used another 15 minutes. Oh well.
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Question 1
2 hour hackerrank coding problem. Was an interesting problem related to chat, and I had fun working on it.
Full day of remote interviews, 4-5 sessions each with data structures programming. One behavioral round with hiring manager towards the end. Process started with a technical screen consisting of an online programming assessment.
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Question 1
What would your former manager/colleagues say about you.
The company seemed really pretentious with them trying so hard to emulate Amazon.
Got rejected after a screening round which was an LLD round. Who screens on the basis of LLD though? The interviewer was not engaged throughout the process and was doing some of his own work. I had to say his name multiple times to bring him back to the conversation.
External recruiter reached out, and afterwards I chatted with a technical recruiter from Hopper. The written communication has been great, polite and timely. The initial chat was going fine until we started talking about the rest of the interview process. The recruiter explained to me that the next step was leetcode style and they used to give 2 days for the challenge to be completed but the women engineers complained that it was too short so they decided to make it a week. I got offended by this specification but still finished the interview as if I wasn’t. Did not continue the process afterwards.
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Question 1
Which technologies I’ve worked with and my education background