I applied online. I interviewed at Indeed in Oct 2014
Interview
Online test and asked me for a phone interview two day later.
Phone interview is actually quite easy, find the first duplicated word in a string. like "sky blue dark blue", simply return blue. Just use a hashset and it is solved! I wrote the code in one shot and then he asked about some of the basic problems of hashtable, time complexity etc, which I was able to answer very quickly. Then he asked if the string is so big, that it is a book, how would you do that?
A little bit communication with the interviewer and I was able to give the solution as well.
But go rejection email three days later. And I have no idea why.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Actually all the questions he gave is reasonable and basic problems.
Only did the 1st round. It was a medium Leetcode question. The interview was only for 30 min. Their compiler threw an unexpected error, which even the interviewers couldn't fix
Terrible scheduling. Difficult company to deal with. Will not contact again. Pay was below industry average for the location. Misleading job description. Benefits below standard. Hope everyone avoids this place
In total, there were five interviews. Three of them were more technical and the other two or more about your background. The technical interviews were pretty standard simple to medium Leetcode questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was asked about how we kept metrics in my previous job. When I told him that this was something we didn’t really do, he continued to harp on this question for the entirety of the interview, as if it was something that would be very difficult for me to learn.