I had an incredibly positive experience with the interview process. It was remarkably smooth, which I found really impressive. The recruiter played a huge role in making it such a great experience for me. She was incredibly responsive, always available to answer my questions and clarify any doubts. What stood out the most was how she guided me through each step of the process.

I applied to their Search and Discovery role and their recruiter reached out to me. The recruiter was actually very knowledgable and knew a lot about the team. I had a call with the recruiter, then the hiring manager (there were actually some technical questions related to data structures here), and two interviews. The two interviews was one with one of their engineers, which was a leetcode type question. The other was with an engineer related to system design. The system design one we were stuck talking about one aspect regarding how to get an accurate count of the item when users checkout. We actually never got to the API portion or how to partition the data, etc. That was a bit strange given that it is suppose to be related to system design. I think a specific answer was targetted. Overall, I would say I had a positive experience.

Overall pretty standard process. The recruiter was responsive and did good prep for each stage. Most of the interviewers were prepared and knowledgeable. One interviewer was not prepared, didn't understand the question, nor the very basic algorithm I applied, and was standoffish and surly the whole time. I quickly implemented my solution after asking clarification questions. They told me multiple times that my algorithm shouldn't work despite demonstrating with numerous test cases that it did, explaining my implementation and giving the correct time and space complexity. They flat-out told me to make changes to my solution to what they thought would work and I humored them to show that their changes wouldn't pass the numerous test cases I had set up. This was barely a medium leetcode question as well. The interviewer said not to worry and that I did well at the end. I later got rejected in favor of someone who got slightly higher technical marks than me. The process overall was soured by this interviewer, who was going to be on my team. Even if I had been moved to an offer round, there were significant concerns that I would need to have addressed before I would consider joining this team. Again, most people I interacted with varied from pleasant to great, with this one notable exception. I don't want to dissuade others from applying as I think Gopuff could be a great place to work, just relaying my experience.