The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Verkada (New York, NY)
Interview
- Recruiter Phone screen
- Technical phone screen - Easy leet code
- 4 - 5 rounds onsite
Some Observations (hope this helps others as the instructions that recruiter tell you are not accurate)
-Mis-guiding candidates on the types of questions asked. (Confirmed that this happened to others)
-It is mentioned in the instructions that there will not be any leet code style questions during onsite even in Algorithms round, but guess what.. they are going to surprise you. So prepare for it.
-They will not let you talk to exec team to ask questions about the financials and how the company is doing, not sure why but I would recommend you request to talk and learn about the company may be they are trying to hide something.
- Company is very chill and no one appears serious about interviews and the job, some of them were not even prepared.
-Most of them are from Google and brag about working there, they exhibit superiority complex.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Prepare for Leetcode even if instructions say that you don't have to.
I got the interview by referral. After a call with the recruiter, I got the invitation for phone interview, which is a OOD. I need to implement APIs based on the requirements with Python.
The interviewer arrived late exactly by 9 mins, I was informed that the interview format was one leet code coding, a small system design and some questions towards the end. So in the interview I worked on the problem and came up with the working solution. Still 12 minutes were remaining for 1 hour mark and also 9 more minutes as the interviewer was late by 9 mins (almost 21 mins remaining). The interviewer instead of asking the system design question abruptly ended the interview with "ask any questions". I understand the interviewer may have different expectation even if i provided a working solution, but the format of the interview should be respected, i.e including system design round too. Abruptly changing the interview format midway shows pure arrogance on part of the interviewer. I understand the decision to take the candidate to future interview rounds or making and offer is totally yours, but you can do a better job by making the interview process fair.
4 parts - a call with a recruiter, a frontend technical interview (eg; building out a UI in a timed session), Leetcode style interview, and a behavioral interview with the engineering manager.
