I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at A Thinking Ape (Vancouver, BC) in May 2018
Interview
2 interviews, each for 30 minutes with one of the staff. One of them was focusing on object oriented design and the other wa on basic data structure and algorithms. Environment is not tense and the interviewer is very friendly.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a 2d array with distinct integer elements, you can go only up, down, left or right to a place holding smaller number. Find the longest path you can go starting from a certain index (r,c)
I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at A Thinking Ape (Vancouver, BC) in Aug 2018
Interview
Applied online, got contacted for phone interviews. 2 phone interviews back-to-back fully technical set up via Skype. Each was around 30 minutes and we dove right into the algorithms. Received offer around 36 hours later. It was a quick process.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Question involving the use of a hashtable and some preprocessing to get a query in constant (average) time.
I applied online. I interviewed at A Thinking Ape in Jan 2018
Interview
The recruiter was very helpful, she explained what to expect and responded to my questions quickly. I was out of Vancouver for vacation and they let me do the interview over Skype. And they let me know the result the same day.
The interview itself was really fun. It was two separate interviews with two different people. Both of them were engaging and I truly enjoyed the time I spent on the interview. It felt more like an enjoyable conversation with a friend about a problem you both are interested in.
Although they were 10 minutes late which made me very nervous.
