Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Allen Institute for AI with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 20% positive. To compare, the company-average is 35% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 19 days to get hired, when considering 5 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Allen Institute for AI overall takes an average of 37 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Allen Institute for AI as a Software Engineer according to 5 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 57%
One on one interview: 29%
Group panel interview: 14%
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Allen Institute for AI (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2017
Interview
They first send you an offline assignment which is code-reviewed on call with an engineer. There is another phone screen where an engineer will discuss a problem with you for an hour and you are expected to write code, analyze time complexity and optimizations.
You then proceed to the onsite rounds consisting of 6 technical interviews. Each interview has a focus area - algorithms, problem solving, architecture, etc. I had two rounds on architecture where the problem could be completely open ended like design a social network and the discussion grows from there.
Make sure you practice analyzing time and space complexity really well, and have good understanding of architecture (pros / cons of design). The rest will basically be discussing problems relating to strings , discrete math, graphs and writing a neat solution.
The engineers here are smart and passionate. It was a pleasure talking to them.
I applied online. I interviewed at Allen Institute for AI in Mar 2021
Interview
1 - Hiring manager (Asked about background)
2 - coding phone (medium-level problem). The interviewer was really good, had a great chat. I was able to solve the question.
3- virtual onsite
round 1 - The interviewer asked me really great question. I really enjoyed solving the problem. This round went really well
round 2 - for the first 5 min she wasn't able to hear anything due to technical issues. after that she asked me a very vague question. I spend 20 minutes to ask and clarify questions, she didnt knew what she wanted and kept repeating I'm asking this question for the first time. I narrowed down question in a a normal coding problem and coded it and explained 2 different approach. after that she pasted some javascript code even though my preferred programming language of choice was a python and told me to design different classes for the given problem. she wanted me to use the property of one class into another class I tried to do it with inheritance but she was confused by simple inheritance logic and told me not to use it(Really?). but i kept explaining how i can do this with inheritance only - this was the stupidest interview ever. In the end, she seemed satisfied but this round broke my confidence.
round 3 - The interviewer was principal engineer and told me to implement the class design of one of the feature of semantic scholar. The interviewer was really knowledgeable and he exactly knew what he was asking. I was really upset and had a mental breakdown after my second interview. wasn't able to fully understand the requirements. Implemented a partial class design. this round didn't go well.
round 4 - Hiring manager
45 min behavioral and 15 min of reverse interview. this round went well.
I really wanted to join Ai2 because of their mission and work and I was planning to renege Amazon for them but anyways, in the end, it was 2 months long and tiring process. Everyone from Ai2 were really smart and friendly, I believe it was just luck, if I had someone else interview me for the second round, the result could have been different. I hope no one encounters that girl in their interviews.
I applied online. I interviewed at Allen Institute for AI (Seattle, WA)
Interview
Honestly what a bad experience. If you say you are going to inform a candidate of a decision by a certain date, follow through with your word. Otherwise, it just feels like you're being strung along or in my case, I honestly feel like the HR person just "forgot" to inform me. They are also slow/unprofessional in scheduling interviews.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Allen Institute for AI (Seattle, WA) in Aug 2018
Interview
It was a short phone interview, although they were disorganized about the process and originally talked about having me come in for the first interview. At the end of it they told me that I wasn't going to get the Product Manager position, even though that isn't what I had applied for.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The person conducting the phone interview just told me to talk about what I work on, and then didn't seem to pay attention at all to what I said. No specific follow-up questions were asked. I got the clear impression that the interviewer was not listening at all.