I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at KWI (Greenvale, NY) in Aug 2016
Interview
Applied through an agency. Met with one of the senior managers there. Whet to visit for an in person interview. Spent more time filling out the applications than talking to the manager.
He ask a couple of shell scripting questions then when on to brain teasers. I told the agency off about the brain teasers and he said that Google and Apple do it, so what is wrong. I said they get thousands of applicants unlike this crap little company out in Long Island. They have a lot of nerve asking brain teasers and wasting my time. The actual interview was over in 10 minutes.
He started with a couple of shell scripting problems then went on to a couple of brain teasers which he call logic questions (which they are not really).
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
How can you count the number of times a string from a pipe delimited file occurs in the file; in other words how many times the first column's sting is in the file.
Brain Teasers
There is a building with 100 floors. You are given 2 identical eggs. The most interesting property of the eggs is that every egg has it’s own “threshold” floor. Let’s call that floor N. What this means is that the egg will not break when dropped from any floor below floor N, but the egg will definitely break from any floor above floor N, including floor N itself. Find which floor the eggs will not break and the first one they do. Must be efficient the answer.
We have 10 identical bottles of identical pills (each bottle contain hundred of pills). Out of 10 bottles 9 have 1 gram of pills but 1 bottle has pills of weight of 1.1 gram. Given a measurement scale, how would you find the heavy bottle? You can use the scale only once.
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at KWI in Sep 2017
Interview
The staffing agency contacted me in mid September regarding this opportunity. unresponsive to the recruiting agency to schedule the first phone interview the process took 4 days. Greenville, NY
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 4 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at KWI overall takes an average of 23 days.
Common stages of the interview process at KWI as a Senior Software Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
Skills test: 33%
One on one interview: 33%
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