I applied through other source. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Rokt
Interview
Aptitude/IQ Test - red flag
Take home assessment was supposed to be completed within 2 hours - but they also wanted it to be containerized, deal with edge cases, AND have tests. The work itself was not that difficult, but the setup (a server), containerization, and making sure that there is adequate testing definitely takes up more than two hours worth of time. Give this assignment to any one of your engineers who hasn't worked with Docker or set up their own server in a while, and see if they can actually do this in the allotted time.
Onsite - System design was standard and interview question was difficult but doable. However, one of my interviewers really seemed like he didn't want to be there and could not care less about what I was saying. Very off putting from an applicant perspective. The rest of my interviewers were friendly and felt like they wanted to see me succeed.
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Tell me about a challenge, tell me about a conflict
Standard IQ testing + 2min video about project I'd completed, then zoom code interview, then system architecture interview, then finally a fit interview. Early interview section was fairly easy, System design was a pretty reasonable 2 stage login/verification app, fit interview was quite engaging and in depth.
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System design was a pretty reasonable 2 stage login/verification app - was asked first to design a scraper to import logins from a text doc on s3 to a db. then infrastructure on how to get logins within 100ms from front to back.
Was in invited to a virtual coding interview as the first round, was equivalent to an easy leetcode problem. Did not finish question within the interview because I got tripped up, but the interviewer said he saw that I had the solution. Got a rejection email a week later.
Questions similar to IQ tests for an initial round. Coding interview was online with live interaction from the interviewer to talk through the thought process. System design interview was quite involved. It really focused on the thought process and design reasoning rather than knowledge, with the interviewer accommodating any knowledge gaps I had. Behavioral interview was fairly standard.
Overall it felt they made an effort to make the interviews fit the candidates' experience and expertise, which I appreciate.
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Leet code style, roughly medium level coding question.
