I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Intuit (San Diego, CA) in Jul 2016
Interview
Recruiter reached out to me recently, knowing me very well from an interview with the company I did a few years ago that did not work out. I had kept in touch over the years. Recruiter thought of some openings that would be a good fit for me so put me in touch with hiring manager.
Basically process consisted of a phone call with recruiter, phone call with hiring manager who asked a mix of behavioral and technical questions, followed by a half day meeting and interviewing on site. Questions were very thorough- they like to get deep on technical questions while also understanding soft skills very well. All questions asked were reasonable, albeit difficult in some cases. That is, no one asked pointless condescending technical questions or irrelevant brain teasers. All conversations were targeted and relevant to actual work needing to be done at Intuit. Also, every single interview always made sure I got time to ask a billion of my own questions.
Feedback process was quick. Never had more than 36 hours go by without hearing from a recruiter or hiring manager by phone or email. Absolutely excellent talent acquisition team.
Very rude and arrogant people. Panel enters the room, completely ignores you and argues with the HR coordinator for some confusions. No basic courtesy to either say hi to the interviewer or have the discussion outside with HR.
It seems they had decided before coming to the room only and interview was just a formality to reject one. I told once, i dont have detailed practical knowledge on machine failure, synchronization and clustering. Concepts i am fully aware of, implementation details i dont know. Still same question was round about asked, first when I discribed the project. And then when you ask to code LRU cache, stick to it.
What is the purpose of again asking how is machine failure handled with in-memory cache, like the LRU cache program written. Plain serialization to a text file is not fine, they want synchronization between systems and what to see code for that all within 30 minutes coding round. Are they expecting me to write the source code for memcache or redis when the question was just LRU cache implementation.
Only good part was the HR,who was quite nice and cooperative all the time.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Intuit (Mountain View, CA) in Sep 2015
Interview
Design and develop an elevator control system simulator. Demo this assignment to a panel of 4.
This is followed by 3 1:1 interviews with each of the panelists. Focus is on knowledge of restful web services, amazon web services, no sql databases.