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      Senior Data Engineer Interview

      18 Jun 2017
      Anonymous interview candidate
      San Francisco, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

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      I applied in-person. I interviewed at Twilio (San Francisco, CA)

      Interview

      Like another reviewer mentioned, absolute disaster of an interview. Very un organized and don’t coordinate amongst themselves on what questions to ask. Phone Screens - 2 calls, one manager screen and one coding where there was a simple coding question and a followup on how to parallelize it. Onsite - This went good. I did well. There was only one coding question - a dynamic programming problem that was fairly simple. Everyone was nice and friendly. Got a callback from the recruiter that feedback was good, but could not come to a conclusion since there were not enough programming problems asked. So wanted to call me over for a couple of programming interviews. I agreed. Now this is where things got interesting and it showed how disorganized their interviewing process is and how little they care about the candidate’s time. Second onsite - They first guy apologized. He basically said that when during my candidate review he asked if anyone asked programming questions, no one said anything. Not true - there were 2 questions asked, one during phone screen, one during onsite. So i don’t know what they discuss during candidate briefing to miss that. Anyway the guy basically spends 20 minutes of the 45 minute algorithm interview trying to explain an architectural design and a corresponding algorithm he’s trying to create to solve the problem. Also his attitude this time is not friendly like before, but a little hostile, which puts me off. He says maybe there is no solution for that - he confused me by saying that. I don’t know why he said that cause it wasn’t that complicated. So i coded a solution where my algorithm is almost similar to his (his solution doesn’t work as well) and it works. But I was a little nervous since i knew this was the interview where things finally get decided and so was slow to code and made mistakes. Second interview was much more typical - starting with a simpler problem working up in layers of complexity. I solved all the problems and clearly did very well here. Twilio - Please, please be more organized. Don’t waste people’s time calling them for multiple rounds when its your fault. When interviewing, do a thorough job of it the first time, co-ordinate amongst yourselves on what to ask. And the strangest thing - please don’t say no algorithms were asked in the first round when in fact they were asked - this seriously shows how disorganized your interview process is. Seriously confused people and very disorganized. Really wasted my time - wasted 2 days.

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