I applied through university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Pocket Gems
Interview
I just resume dropped on my school's career services page and got a very prompt response to schedule a first round interview. That said, the interview itself was much more "code monkey"-ish than I expected. In most other interviews I've had, interviewers care more about your thought process than your ability to write syntactically correct code, but here they expected it to compile and run. It's not necessarily a bad thing, just not at all what I expected so my usual "write pseudocode for functions I don't know the exact name of" approach didn't work, and I had to rely on the interviewer to fill in the syntax blanks. In the end, I think this is what doomed me because while I eventually got the desired output, it took a fair amount of trial and error with respect to syntax, and I was rejected almost immediately after the interview (quite literally within five minutes). My advice would be to pick a language and know it well.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a list of ints and an integer k, return the k (note: not the kth) most frequent elements
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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