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      Software Engineer Interview

      Jan 10, 2018
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      New York, NY
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through college or university. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Factual (New York, NY) in Sep 2017

      Interview

      I had a phone screen with the recruiter followed by two phone screens and then the final onsite. I would say that up until and including the first interview i had as part of the onsite was very pleasant. As for the interview process, I think its important to keep a sense of professionalism with regards to a candidate's answer with regards to technical questions. After being unable to answer a question with two interviewers, they tried to abruptly end the interview. Not that one should get their hopes up obviously if they can't answer a question accurately, however it really did make them come off as arrogant. A great example is when one of the interviewers I had expressed his frustration with me not knowing about regex even though I had a web crawling project on my resume. Although regex is an approach, you can also check to see if a specific string is a substring of a larger string. I would've hoped that considering Factual uses a plethora of technologies, that they would realize there are alternative approaches and not just give me the cold shoulder since I didn't know about their approach. Because of this, I decided to drop the ball on the rest of my interviews. One of them said good luck on the job search and finding a fit. From what I could tell about the company during my onsite, expect nothing out of the ordinary from any startup: snacks/drinks, catered meals, not many red tapes to go through, and really just a lot of freedom. As for the questions they asked, without giving anything away, expect something straight from your college level coding textbook, a leetcode medium/hard level question, and two design questions. The design questions were definitely more appropriate for mid/senior level folks. Thus, for anyone applying for a entry level role, I do wish you luck if you are not comfortable in all parts of the stack. Considering not everyone out there is completely full-stack, I guess I do see why there were so many people who got declined an offer on glassdoor and why Factual is the size it is, despite it being almost a decade. As technical interviews don't always show a person's aptitude for success in a company ( for startups, from personal experience, I believe it's really about how much of a self-starter you are), I think Factual should ask more appropriate questions for entry level roles ( most companies do ask OOP design questions). Additionally, it would've been great if more people had asked me about my resume instead of rushing into the technical questions. Lastly, I'd say that really would've appreciated an email instead of a phone call, especially since they had asked for my availability the following week to recap what happened about my status. Taking the time to see what a candidate's schedule is like despite knowing immediately about the feedback from the interviewers is definitely a bad move on their part. I read below that someone from Factual thought it was better to have a phone call than an abrupt email. If that's the case, then why don't most companies do this...? At the end of the day, for anybody else reading this, do remember that companies want more people and aren't deliberately trying to make people fail. It is a learning process, and considering that Factual has been around for almost a decade, I'd imagine their engineering team will stay around the same for a while/into the future whilst growing their sales team. I had heard that engineering is around 40% whilst everyone else being 60%. I don't doubt the possibility that engineering would hit 10% in the future. I do wish them luck in hiring and look forward to seeing what most people say about interviewing with Factual in the future ( I'd imagine I won't be too surprised ).

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      something straight from your college level programming textbook, leetcode medium/hard, two odd design questions which are more appropriate for a mid/senior level engineer
      Answer question
      2

      Other Software Engineer Interview Reviews for Factual

      Software Engineer Interview

      Mar 5, 2020
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Factual

      Interview

      First phone screen with recruiter or engineer for behavioral portion. Pair coding challenge in a JavaScript framework using a coding site. Asked to take data and manipulate and render it accordingly. Pretty standard and straight forward interview.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Manipulate data and render it
      Answer question

      Software Engineer Interview

      Oct 25, 2019
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Los Angeles, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Factual (Los Angeles, CA)

      Interview

      One of the vague and reckless interview process. Got an invitee from HR to schedule the interview. I was scheduled for an interview 10 days later. On the day of interview the person emailed me to say there is conflict and want to reschedule. I rescheduled the meeting. On the day of interview, the interviewer called and described the company and asked a question about trees. I solved the question and also answered the follow-up question with space and time complexities. He did negotiate me while solving the problem and seemed to be impressed and went through the whole solution. An hour after the interview they sent me an email saying skill set doesn't match and not the correct background for the position. Why do you even shortlist and give a call if the background doesn't match? Why do you play with the candidate's emotions and waste their time if you have no intention of hiring the candidate even if they answer your question? You could tell that there is a better way of solving it in the interview itself Why do you vaguely schedule the interview just for your count purpose of records and write in reports without hiring intention? It was very bad to waste some one's time which is as precious as yours Why do ask for time slots and schedule the interview after 10 days only to reschedule? If you are not impressed don't provide the assumption of being impressed at least provide feedback without any template email saying background doesn't match. If that is the case then your recruiters should be changed for shortlisting the candidates with right background instead of scheduling the interview and sending the background doesn't match. All they do is fake interviews for records and reports and no intention to hire

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Some question on Data structures and algorithms
      Answer question

      Software Engineer Interview

      Oct 14, 2019
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Factual

      Interview

      Applied online and got the online assessment within 2 weeks of applying. There were 2 questions related to arrays and strings, easy problems to solve within the given time frame. After a week I got a reject saying that the position has been closed.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Minimum number of gates required for constructing an airport, with the given constraints.
      Answer question
      1

      Factual interviews FAQs

      • Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Factual with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 39% positive. To compare, the company-average is 43.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
      • Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 25 days to get hired, when considering 18 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Factual overall takes an average of 29 days.
      • Common stages of the interview process at Factual as a Software Engineer according to 18 Glassdoor interviews include:

        Phone interview:  44%

        One on one interview:  24%

        Presentation:  12%

        Skills test:  12%

        Group panel interview:  8%

      • Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -

        1. Software Engineer(11) ;
        2. Sales(3) ;
        3. Data Engineer(2) .


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