I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at X (Stony Brook, NY) in Oct 2014
Interview
There was one 45-minute technical interview. Though the question only took 30 minutes. The rest was more about me as person and my past achievements. I felt the questions were a little too easy and the interviewer was not as familiar with multiple languages and asked me to write in Python, which I know but I am less familiar in. It is kinda my fault I had it on my resume because I do know it just not well enough to interview in.
The actual interview wasn't bad it was when they sent me the sorry we aren't moving forward with your actual application which I thought was bad. It was clearly auto-generated and not really looked over because they didn't have my name in the email. They corrected it after I asked for a clarification and why my name wasn't on the email.
Phone screen, followed by two coding rounds, one system design, and one HM/behavioral round. Prepare with LeetCode tagged questions related to data structures, algorithms, and system design topics. Prepare for Behavioural in STAR method.
Went through two screenings and virtual onsite. Technical team members were friendly and great to speak with. Recruiters were pretty awful - the one that set up the virtual onsite gave everybody different zoom links and trying to find the correct room to join really cut into my interview time and made me stressed out during the VO. Main recruiter scheduled a phone call to discuss results after the VO for when it was past midnight in my timezone but never called or responded to my followup.
To the recruiter: you don't need to try to keep me warm by scheduling a phone call and ghosting me when I only asked you whats the decision timeline. If its rejection just email to let me know instead of wasting more of my time especially when its late in my timezone.
In general this would've been a positive experience if the recruiters weren't so bad.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at X (London, England) in Apr 2025
Interview
Ho effettuato un colloquio conoscitivo con HR dopodiché una sessione di live coding e domande tecniche con il responsabile dell'area. Domande vertevano su vari algoritmi e complessità in termini di tempo e spazio
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Risoluzione di un problema algoritmico che richiedeva l'utilizzo della funzione xor