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Initial 2 screening round: 1. 2 hr pair programming round - Monty Hall problem 2. Manager round to understand expectations, why Clari, interesting projects, etc. - 30 mins Full loop - consisting of 5 rounds: 1. Manager round 1: tell me about an interesting project that you haven't told; manager in a prior interview. Again why Clari? Some behavioral questions. 2. Manager round 3: tell me about an interesting project that you haven't told the manager in a prior interview (so we don't conflict in debriefing). Some behavioral questions. 3. A leet code medium coding on coderpad 4. System Resiliency design - again talking about prior project ( i am tired rescue me now) 5. Design - design priority queue, an ETL system to query data from customer system to Clari system 6. Director round - again behavioral, why Clari? interesting project?
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Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at Clari

3.4★
Jul 21, 2021

Initial 2 screening round: 1. 2 hr pair programming round - Monty Hall problem 2. Manager round to understand expectations, why Clari, interesting projects, etc. - 30 mins Full loop - consisting of 5 rounds: 1. Manager round 1: tell me about an interesting project that you haven't told; manager in a prior interview. Again why Clari? Some behavioral questions. 2. Manager round 3: tell me about an interesting project that you haven't told the manager in a prior interview (so we don't conflict in debriefing). Some behavioral questions. 3. A leet code medium coding on coderpad 4. System Resiliency design - again talking about prior project ( i am tired rescue me now) 5. Design - design priority queue, an ETL system to query data from customer system to Clari system 6. Director round - again behavioral, why Clari? interesting project?

Assignment Deliverables 1. Choose a (free to test and look at) Varsity Tutors competitor of your choice. Show and tell us how you think about what they’re offering to their customers. 2. How would you describe this competitor’s conversion model, i.e. how they attract prospective clients and convert them? 3. What are three step-function hypotheses to improve the competitor’s conversion, and a coinciding test (idea) for each hypothesis? 4. How would you describe Varsity Tutors’ conversion model? How might we make it more efficient or grow it?
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Principal Product Manager

Interviewed at Varsity Tutors

3.2★
Dec 5, 2024

Assignment Deliverables 1. Choose a (free to test and look at) Varsity Tutors competitor of your choice. Show and tell us how you think about what they’re offering to their customers. 2. How would you describe this competitor’s conversion model, i.e. how they attract prospective clients and convert them? 3. What are three step-function hypotheses to improve the competitor’s conversion, and a coinciding test (idea) for each hypothesis? 4. How would you describe Varsity Tutors’ conversion model? How might we make it more efficient or grow it?

Who wrote this book about TDD? (lol) What's the difference between a Principal and Sr Engineer? Other completely open ended questions about how would you secure these 2 systems, when tried to gather more information about the question, devs responded we are the ones interviewing with you, only we ask questions.
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Principal Security Engineer

Interviewed at Resmed

4★
Nov 3, 2016

Who wrote this book about TDD? (lol) What's the difference between a Principal and Sr Engineer? Other completely open ended questions about how would you secure these 2 systems, when tried to gather more information about the question, devs responded we are the ones interviewing with you, only we ask questions.

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