Me postulé a través de una facultad o universidad. Acudí a una entrevista en Addepar (New York, NY) en nov 2016
Entrevista
I didn't really understand what the company does and there brochure made it sound like their technology was interesting so I applied. Questions are somewhat harder than average but manageable. I'd say half of the interviewers were very nice but the other half felt very snobbish.
The onsite started with a product demo. The gist is that Addepar serves "ultra-wealthy individuals" and builds web apps to manage their assets. I immediately get the feeling that as an engineer my job is pretty much cleaning the messy data collected from these rich guys' various banks/funds/whatever and present them in a nice format. I proceed to finish the interviews and correctly solved all the problems but I really lost interest in working there from the first minute.
In summary, it's a decent place to work as an engineer. But if you are looking for something challenging to work on, it's probably the wrong place. (To give you an example, one round is to find a bug in a HTML parsing library. I did it in like 2 minutes and the interviewer made it sound like when they found it, it was some kind of major engineering break through. Good job, guys.)
p.s. Catered food on the interview day was pretty bad but I can't complain about free food. Maybe I hit a bad day.
Me postulé en línea. Acudí a una entrevista en Addepar (Edimburgo, Escocia) en mar 2026
Entrevista
All good until the technical interview. The task itself wasn't terribly complicated in hindsight, but the atmosphere was horrendous - the interviewer was snickering all the time and the task itself was on a very tight time limit. It was a very high pressure, unnatural environment which would never really happen in a working environment. Furthermore it did not feel like I was being tested on my actual knowledge of building software, rather things like string comparisons and arrays/hashmaps - this isn't a grad scheme.
Not to mention the interviews go for 7 stages - that's like 2 months of time wasted to possibly be told 'no'.
Me postulé en línea. Acudí a una entrevista en Addepar
Entrevista
First round is a meeting with HR where they go over your CV to see if you'd be a good fit for their requirements.
The second round is one of these silly leetcode/hackerrank technical tests where half the interview is trying to figure out what on earth the problem is even asking. The answer involves string manipulation, use of hashmaps and some basic maths. However, this round is not a good judge of a software engineer. It's a pointless task with no real application in the real world. Why on earth would financial portfolio data be stored in an array of space separated strings? Eg "GOOG 10". Database ORMs, object orientation and dictionaries exist for a reason. I spent a good portion of the interview explaining how this data really should have been stored and didn't finish the solution on time because of this.
Talking to the interviewer was like speaking to a brick wall too. No friendly discussion, barely a greeting when I joined the call and frequently racing to find something to correct you on. If the working environment is anything like this then I dodged a bullet.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Find discrepancies between a day zero and day one portfolio based on a transactions log.
Me postulé a través de una facultad o universidad. El proceso tomó 1 día. Acudí a una entrevista en Addepar (Bengaluru)
Entrevista
First the screening round than shortlisted candidates java or cpp based mcqs and coding questions with hard to medium level questions after that the selected students require to appear for further rounds