I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at a2z Development Center (Irvine, CA) in Oct 2011
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter and invited to an initial phone screen. The first phone screen took approximately 45 minutes and covered basic data structures and algorithms questions with a bit of discussion about my background. I was contacted first thing the next morning to set up a 2nd phone screen which also lasted about 45 minutes and delved into more complex questions. I was contacted the next morning and told that I was invited to an in-person interview and a mixer the night before. The mixer was a lot of fun and introduced myself and the other candidates to the culture, people and environment.
The in-person interview took approximately 5 hours. I had a series of 5 1:1 interviews with a mix of junior developers, senior developers and managers ranging in topic from algorithms to career achievements and everything in between. The technical questions were challenging without being painful and all of the interviewers were friendly and encouraging. They served lunch before the last interview and my recruiter walked me to the reception area to ask how it went when we were finished.
I was called just a few hours after the interview was finished with an offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a method to reverse the order of words in a string. e.g.: "This is a string" -> "string a is This"
I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at a2z Development Center (Irvine, CA) in Mar 2014
Interview
5 interviews, lasting all day. Ridiculous academic-type algorithm questions... nothing that would be useful in the real world as a software engineer. It seemed more geared toward a new college graduate than someone with real world experience. Complete waste of time, for me at least. This position was supposed to be for a level 2 or 3 software engineer but there wasn't a single question related to anything I've worked on in 8 years as a SWE.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Algorithms, algorithms, algorithms... all functional type stuff, no OO stuff that people use everyday in the software engineering world. Seemed like all academic type questions and not real-world uses.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at a2z Development Center (Irvine, CA) in Feb 2013
Interview
1 phone interview followed by on site call. Phone call question was a basic coding problem on arrays and some knowledge based questions. The onsite was with 5 interviewers- 3 of them asked coding, object oriented questions followed by a behavioral/lunch interview and finally, a resume-based/behavioral interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Print a 2d-character matrix in spiral order, design a chess game, Identify patterns in a 2d-boolean matrix.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at a2z Development Center in May 2012
Interview
Applied through their website, they also came to our college for a info session and collected resumes. Later I received a mail from them to schedule two back to back phone interviews each 30 mins long. One of it was a programming exercise and other was a technical interview with lot of ques on datastructures.
Software Development Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at a2z Development Center with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 75% positive. To compare, the company-average is 54.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer roles take an average of 20 days to get hired, when considering 5 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at a2z Development Center overall takes an average of 14 days.
Common stages of the interview process at a2z Development Center as a Software Development Engineer according to 5 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 42%
One on one interview: 33%
Background check: 8%
Personality test: 8%
Skills test: 8%
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