Me postulé a través de una recomendación de un empleado. El proceso tomó 4 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Block (San Francisco, CA) en ene 2018
Entrevista
Overall, a very positive experience. I find the reviews on here that say the interview was 100% negative hard to believe. At the very least, everyone I interacted with was professional, and nearly all of them were outright friendly.
I obviously can't predict what questions others will be asked during their interviews, but in general, Square doesn't seem to ask "hard" questions that rely on figuring out a specific trick to get the correct answer. Instead, they ask what I'd call "fair" questions - multistage OOP problems that incorporate CS fundamentals to varying extents. That being said, if people study in a way that heavily favors trick problems, they might find Square's more practical/applied questions pretty hard.
Biggest piece of advice: get your code running.
I think the most important difference from many other companies is that you're actually coding on a computer, not whiteboarding - so your code has to run. Getting your code to run should be your first priority. If it doesn't run, you need to be able to debug and fix your errors quickly. Get to a working solution for the initial stage of the question, run some test cases, refactor... then repeat for the next, harder stage of the question. Honestly, most of my coding interviews at Square ended up being kind of fun.
You may or may not get asked specific time/space complexity questions about your code, depending on the interviewer. Interviewers were all friendly, and helped unblock me if I got too stuck for too long. They kept things moving.
The post-interview experience was very positive, too. Things moved quickly - I heard back within a couple days - and the team selection, offer, and negotiation all went pretty smoothly. End-to-end, the entire process from initial phone screen to final offer took 4 weeks, and could have moved faster if my personal schedule had permitted it.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Multistage OOP problems that rely on correct usage/application of CS fundamentals.
Inital take home, followed by extension interview, followed by a coding challenge, followed by system design interview.
The whole process took 3 months!
The interviewers are usually really nice and want you to do your best.
The interviewer was nice, and he is friendly and willing to give hint, the question has 2 follow-ups, it was hard to complete in time. The question was not a typical LeetCode
Acudí a una entrevista en Block (San Francisco, CA)
Entrevista
Phone screen and then a full day of interviews. 3 pair programming challenges, a system design review and a prior experience interview. There was also an onsite lunch with a person from the company.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
To design a hotel booking system. Pick any part (backend, frontend, database, api etc) and deepdive into that, explaining the decisions along the way.