Me postulé a través de un reclutador. El proceso tomó 2 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en CarGurus (Cambridge, MA) en jun 2018
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Note: My interview process was non-standard, as I was deemed to be more suitable for another role partway through the interview
Contacted by a technical recruiter who then scheduled me for a phone screen. Phone screen was a fun conversation with an engineer which was aimed at gauging the depth of my understanding of software systems, kinda like a design interview that stopped to drill into details.
Followed up with onsite interviews that consisted of a coding exercise, and a design/coding exercise when the interviewer realized I was probably interviewing for the wrong role at the company. Was quickly shifted from a UI/UX role to a more JavaScript-centric interview.
First interview for that role was working through implementing the promise spec, which was a lot of fun. Couple more JavaScript interviews later, I had a conversation with the hiring manager after which I was presented with an offer, which I accepted.
Throughout the whole process, Andrea - the recruiter, was always very responsive and open. This helped me to be open with her about my expectations(salary, timeline) throughout the process. The company was very patient with my timeline and moved at my pace, but was always fast in their responses i.e on the same business day. When making the offer, they also cut out the negotiation games and made an offer that exceeded the expectations I set out early on.
Me postulé a través de un reclutador. Acudí a una entrevista en CarGurus
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I was approached by the CarGurus sourcer on LinkedIn and then introduced to a recruiter. Initial phone call went well. Had a phone screen with one of the engineers on the team. Cleared it as the questions were very easy and was asked for availability for onsite. They have 2 virtual rounds and 2 in person rounds. For the 2 virtual rounds one of the interviewers wasn’t prepared well. She had some weird question and when asked for clarification she kept blabbering about the use case instead of the intrinsic details of the problem. For the in person onsite they asked me for the availability and after confirming I couldn’t attend due to health reason and respectfully asked to postpone the date. I was given a new date but this time again postponed due to a team member not being available. When I asked for new date, I didn’t hear back from them for a week and later received a rejection email. Very unprofessional behavior I must say.
Typical screening call with a recruiter followed by a one hour technical interview. During the technical interview neither interviewees turned their camera on which was rather disrespectful. The technical questions weren’t difficult but when I would try to further clarify my answer I would get cut off and rushed to the next question. Overall a strange experience and will not be moving forward with this company.
Interview contained 2 parts: - live coding: simple SQL tasks, 1 task from leetcode and 1 open task for tree knowledge - something like system design interview. Interviewer described me a problem and I suggested different approaches, but each time I tried to propose any other option, he kept asking only about caching approach. Didn't like that part to be honest. At the end there were also general questions like "describe yours hardest task".
