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      Staff Engineer Interview

      21 Apr 2023
      Anonymous interview candidate
      New York, NY
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at WeightWatchers (New York, NY) in Apr 2023

      Interview

      Started with a standard recruiter screen. My resume matched word-for-word with the description posted so both recruiter and I felt it would be a great fit. Then had an initial take-home coding assignment on CodeSignal, one of the many code test platforms. Pretty standard stuff, implementing a basic algorithm. Scored 100% and passed. I was then told I'd be speaking to the hiring manager and doing some live coding, also standard stuff. However, the live coding turned out to be a toy problem on balancing brackets in a string - nothing relevant to the job, no signal capturing of my experience at all. And the interview was staged such that the hiring manager and another engineer just sat there, pasted a problem into an editor and didn't say a word as I tried to dust off cobwebs on college sophomore level data structures. Gigantic waste of time for everyone, absolutely no reason to do this live. I learned from the recruiter that they were "having trouble hiring for this position" and had rejected 3 similarly well-qualified candidates. No surprise, if this is the silly kind of thing they are making or breaking candidates on at the STAFF level. In the feedback the recruiter sent me, the hiring manager tediously nitpicked every little keystroke of my process (for example, "didn't close the parentheses on function first time, got eventually"), things that any working professional might go through in the course of writing production grade code. Clearly overly pedantic and unfocused minds on this team, stay away.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Balance brackets in a string.
      1 Answer
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