I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at BRAIN CORP (San Diego, CA) in Mar 2023
Interview
The first round is a take home coding assignment. Design a matrix multiplication and transformation library in C++. The second round is a Zoom interview. The interviewer explained what the company does and the project that the team is working on. The third round was an on-site half day interview. There are four sessions in total. In the first session, the interviewer showed me around the lab and let me drive the vehicle and asked me my previous projects. The second and the third sessions were about coding. One weird thing was that they asked me to code in Python instead of C++. The final session was about LiDAR system questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Explain my previous projects. 2. How and when to throw unexpected exceptions. 3. How to extract data from CSV files. 4. How to deal with LiDAR system. 5. How do design a mine sweeper game.
Online Assessment, Virtual Onsite, Onsite : Introduction, 3-round Senior engineer interview, round up. The environment is nice, the company is on a hill and the office feels like UCSD library floor 6. The company is a very chill, they have volleyball games and Monday and Friday are optional to be in the office. Feel very respected during the entire interview process, and provided useful feedbacks.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Online Assessment : Use C++ write a simple library and write test cases Virtual Onsite : a series of problems surrounding one topic Onsite : 1- Introduction to the office, share previous project 2- Senior engineer interview : tricky Python question regarding radar and behavioral questions 3 - Senior engineer interview : chat about background and read write data with CSV file 4 - Senior engineer interview : simple dictionary and concept with throw exception 5 - share some more project and round up
Software Engineer II applicants have rated the interview process at BRAIN CORP with 2.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 37.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer II roles take an average of 90 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at BRAIN CORP overall takes an average of 27 days.
Common stages of the interview process at BRAIN CORP as a Software Engineer II according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 29%
Personality test: 29%
One on one interview: 29%
Phone interview: 14%
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