Me postulé en línea. Acudí a una entrevista en Handshake en abr 2021
Entrevista
Phone screen w/ HR followed by a tech screen on an online coding platform.
The tech screen went very well. I was able to solve the problem of making change given certain denominations of coins as well as write out working code for the vending machine itself (efficient storing of items, vending the items, etc).
The issue came when I got the call from the recruiter saying that the position was for an "L6/7 Principal Engineer" and they felt that I did not do well enough on the coding exercise as there were "unaccounted for edge cases". Not sure what edge cases they were referring to, as there were no tests given for me to run. Every test that I went through with the interviewer passed just fine. Really disappointing and confusing feedback, as the code worked well *by the interviewers own admission*.
If the position was for a Principal Engineer, I'm not sure why the job description lists "Senior". There is clearly a difference between the two. Knowing that, I would have also asked for more money coming into the process.
The process began with a standard recruiter screen followed by a four-level coding challenge. Unfortunately, the technical assessment was poorly structured. The requirements for each level were overly abstract, forcing candidates to make broad assumptions to pass the test cases rather than following clear documentation.
Furthermore, the coding environment lacked basic IDE features like IntelliSense. Requiring verbose code for complex, ambiguous problems without standard editor support felt unnecessarily tedious. I managed Level 1, but by Level 2, the lack of clarity made it difficult to stay engaged.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Something around timestamp based key value storage and retrieval. Then level 2 involved assigning priorities to each key and then retrieving the sorted list of keys and so on.
Me postulé en línea. El proceso tomó 2 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Handshake en nov 2024
Entrevista
Standard tech interview with a take-home assignment. Not a leetcode brain-teaser but more basic code design.
Phone Screen
Technical Phone Screen
Virtual On-site
- Take home assignment, basic CRUD app
- System Design
- Behavioral
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Technical Phone Screen - Create methods to mock a vending machine. Vending machine should calculate change. User needs to call 2 methods, one to input change, one to select item, and 2 actions should be idempotent done in any order prior to vending items.
Virtual On-site
- Take home assignment, basic CRUD app
- Design a job board
Me postulé a través de un reclutador. El proceso tomó 2 días. Acudí a una entrevista en Handshake (San Francisco, CA) en sept 2023
Entrevista
I hesitate to call my experience an interview, because, laughingly, I didn't even get to speak to the internal recruiter who originally reached out to me via LinkedIn. We initially had a date & time set, and the recruiter switched the calendar invite to a different day & time 10minutes before we were due to meet, without even the courtesy of informing me. As it turns out, that day & time were not good for me, so I suggested a different day & time, and sent the recruiter a note. The recruiter had accepted the 2nd invite, and I thought we were all set to meet via Zoom. I joined the call, but the recruiter never showed - totally ghosted. I haven't heard from the recruiter since
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