The process took 8 weeks. I interviewed at Indeed in May 2022
Interview
Took a long time between phone screen and first interview. There was a take home assessment after the first interview, for which I was told feedback would be provided, but I was ghosted. Would be good to hear back regardless of outcome as time had been spent on completing the assessment.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a recent project you completed and whether there is anything you feel you could have done better
I applied online. I interviewed at Indeed in Jun 2022
Interview
I enjoyed the meeting in the first round as she was energized and supportive of her team. However, she let me know they are not allowed to give feedback. She said she would get back to me at the end of the week or Monday at the latest. Unfortunately, she did not get back to or respond to my email. A week later, I got an auto rejection. My only issue is that recruiters do not create good relationships by not doing what they say they will do.
informal HR phone call followed by coding test that you can schedule 2 weeks out.
First round is an interview through a 3rd party company karat, designed to give you coding questions. I do wish it wasnt a 3rd party. The interviewer had a thick accent and we both had trouble understanding each other at points. I would be asked the same question 2-3 times after I just answered it. I also would ask multiple times for the interviewer to repeat themselves or speak slowly, for them to just repeat the exact question verbatim at the same pace, making it seem clear they were reading from a script. I got the gist of what they were saying. The problem itself I think would've been easier if I had understood some of the rules such as you can use repeat letters, etc(Again, if I could understand the person clearly). You have to explain your solution before attempting to code. Because of the accent, I had to explain my solution about 4 times, and more during the actual problem solving, which took up some of my coding time. This didn't affect it as I didnt solve the 2 question minimum anyway, but it definitely was stressful. you have 45 minutes to both explain your solution and solve at least 2 problems with optimized solutions and to completion. after explaining the solution, you probably have 16-20 minutes per solution, so I'd recommend learning how to speed code, as just writing out the data structures took a good chunk of time, let alone the problem. the problems are solvable as I came up with a solution right away, but the issue is writing all your data structures(all the functions too such as insert, push, search, pop, etc thats needed) in addition to the actual algorithm in under 20 minutes while being asked to explain your solution repetitively.
Afterwards they send your interview to the hiring manager for a 2nd round if you solved minimum 2 questions optimized, and I assume beat out others.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
No technical questions, but "what was the most challenging project youve had, your role, and what motivated you to overcome those challenges * I think, I had a hard time understanding.
Given several scrambled strings such as "strtrgcaba", find at most one word out of a list [birds, cat, baby, etc..], return none or null if no words. I couldnt understand the interviewer, but it mightve been possible to use repeat letters, but it wasnt clear. All strings given (6 strings total) had to be returned with the correct answer.