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      Senior Back End Engineer Interview

      26 Apr 2018
      Anonymous interview candidate
      San Mateo, CA
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Zipcar (San Mateo, CA)

      Interview

      Quick phone screen with a 3 hour onsite with multiple individuals. Very nice group and nice vibe in the office. Mostly it was a useful interview with a whiteboard algorithms exercise and several scenario/design questions. I would have rated this positive except the last interview involved the most pointless computer exercise I've encountered in an interview. Basically it tests how quickly you can cut and paste URLs. In the short allotted time, much of it was spent on project setup, getting access tokens, etc.., to do a simple exercise with little technical merit. In the end, little time was left to write code. This part should really change.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Algorithm design with linked list/queue type implementation. Pointless question mentioned before.
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