Me postulé a través de una recomendación de un empleado. Acudí a una entrevista en SingleStore (Seattle, WA) en ene 2021
Entrevista
Took about the 4 months for the entire process and was told in the end that I lack experience. First of all it was a new grad role and they should have let me know about it in the beginning, rather then let me interview for about 4 months which was super slow. Took almost a month after every round of interviews. Apparently they only have a single recruiter managing everything. Very bad experience overall. Not worth it
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Leetcode,
Take home assignment etc,
Super slow in the interview process
Me postulé en línea. Acudí a una entrevista en SingleStore en ene 2021
Entrevista
1st round (Dec 3rd week 2020) - add functionality to a database.
2nd & 3rd round (Jan 1st week 2021) - Technical Interviews DS/Alogos.
After the 2nd/3rd round the recruiter completely ghosted without any response for weeks, and in interviews, I waited for almost 20 mins but no one showed up. Very unprofessional.
Suggestion to recruiter: Please at least reply to the candidates about the decision. It takes a lot of time and effort to prepare and give these interviews.
Me postulé en línea. El proceso tomó 3 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en SingleStore (San Francisco, CA) en oct 2019
Entrevista
I was contacted with a request for a phone screen a few months after I initially applied online. The format of the interview was thoroughly detailed -- diving into a C codebase and making changes -- so I was able to brush up on my C and prepare accordingly. I learned I passed very shortly after the interview concluded and scheduled two further phone interviews.
The format of the next two interviews was industry standard technical LeetCode/HackerRank questions (med-hard). In one of the interviews, I solved the problem given in 30 min and was told to seek the optimal space complexity solution, which was tricky. The interviewer had a laissez-faire attitude and wasn't interactive, which caused some stress. Lacking direction, I may have talked in circles.
The second interviewer was significantly more interactive and conversational; instead of a single large problem, we walked through a series of a problem with escalating complexity of functionality.
I did not pass the second set of phone interviews and make it to the onsite. They did not provide any feedback. I found it strange that they implemented a "diving into a real codebase" interview to test practical software engineering ability and then fell back on the abstract "reverse K-long segments of a linked list"- type questions. Other companies like Stripe focus more consistently on what they are looking for.
