I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Pocket Gems
Interview
The interviewer was highly unprofessional.
Previously, my interview was stated to be at 4:30 PM, however the interviewer gave me a late heads up that she was not able to make it and wanted to push it until 5:00 PM, which I was fine with. During the interview her attitude towards me was negative. She gave me a question and I started to work on it. I had an common algorithm in mind that I generally utilized for this type of question. The algorithm was heavily utilized in my courses. As soon as I started implementing it, she repeatedly asked questions which I understand is the point of an interviewer. So I tried constantly to explain it not only through the phone but also typed examples in the codepad to show her how it works which is still understandable since it is a difficult algorithm to understand at first.
After doing so, she accused me of doing the same problem before. I responded to her by saying "I have not done this exact problem, but I have encountered this type of problem before and learned the algorithm to solve these types of problems".
At the end of the interview, she asked me if I had any questions. I was interested in what games/products at Pocket Gems she was interested in. She responded, that this was not work related and proceeded to not answer my question. I also asked what the daily work life of a software engineer was like at Pocket Gems. She coarsely shrugged the question off and moved on to saying if I had any other questions.
Very negative experience. I don't recommend this company at all.
I received an email from an HR after participating in an online competition. The first round was an online coding interview with an engineer from their team. I did not go beyond the telephonic round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find the lowest common ancestor in a binary search tree.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Pocket Gems in Mar 2022
Interview
OA with 2 medium problems & a code review, 1-hour 1st round technical interview followed by 3 consecutive 1-hour technical interviews.
The interviewers were all super nice. They were willing to work together towards a solution when I needed some subtle hints. They were very polite, engaged and eager to chat.
Got the offer pretty shortly after my last interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Medium leetcode questions, graphs & hashmaps are your friends.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Pocket Gems in Nov 2021
Interview
I was given a Hackerrank to complete after a few weeks of waiting for a response. Just some common leetcode style questions in hackerranks. I didn't do so well though so received the rejection email a few days later.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Hackerrank questions I don't really remember specifics.
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