I applied online. I interviewed at Pocket Gems (San Francisco, CA)
Interview
I was given 2 online coding challenges until I received a 1-hour technical interview over the phone. I didn't make it past this round.
I was disappointed in the phone interview because the coding problem that was given to me contained a "made-up" logical operator that I was not familiar with. The interviewer ended up spending almost 20 minutes trying to (badly) explain to me the behavior of this operator so I ended up running out of time before solving the problem.
This was frustrating because the problem itself was not difficult (related to constructing a trinary tree given string input) but the expected behavior of this operator was ill-defined and hence made it difficult to construct the tree correctly.
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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