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      Software Engineer Interview

      14 Sept 2016
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Dublin, Dublin
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Zendesk (Dublin, Dublin) in Sept 2016

      Interview

      This was for a Ruby position for their Dublin offices: First of all, a phone call from HR which went really well, then a coding exercise over a Skype call with screen sharing. I couldn't get after that since I received a message from HR stating: The feedback was that although you had a good high level approach how to solve the problem and wrote tests you had a lot of issues with programming in Ruby (for example spent a lot of time searching documentation to find methods on array to solve sub-problems). My problem was that I never had this kind of interviews so I was pretty much nervous about it and in my daily job I work with 3 different languages being Swift, Java and Ruby, and although I did spend some time looking for the indexOf method from Ruby which is include?, is not that I didn't get the problem right, I was confused at this point since I thought companies search for people who can solves problems. In any case, I don't know what's considered "a lot" of time since I must have spent a minute or so searching in Ruby's Array class doc in Google (which I was encouraged to do so when I don't remember something). I think the main problem with my interview is that my interviewer was just another Software Engineer and not a manager or someone who has "people skills". I approached the problem in the correct way, I wrote test cases for it but I forgot a method from Ruby. And last but not least, tell me about someone who doesn't Google things, I thought all developers do that but it seems doing that is against the rules, is not that I googled how to solve the problem. Honestly, I felt disappointed from their reply and I honestly believe their hiring process is a little bit broken. I hope Zendesk doesn't take this review the wrong way, is just my opinion on how things went, if their response was a way to tell me "we had a better guy", then they should have said that.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

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      2 Answers
      7

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