I applied online. I interviewed at dataxu in Jun 2017
Interview
HR person called me and told me about the company. She did not call me at the scheduled time. I reached out 45 mins later and asked whether we are going to talk. She called me 15 mins after that. She told me to finish an 1 hour test which was a coding test. I did that on Sunday and waited 8 days before I am writing this review. The test went very good but nothing after that. I dont know why is the case. I emailed HR lady after and no response. I find it very difficult to understand how they do not extend me the courtesy to atleast respond when I spent 1 hour of my time to give the test. Anyway I hope this is not the true representation of the work company does
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at dataxu (Boston, MA) in Mar 2018
Interview
Recruiter reached out to me on Linkedin and followed up with a call to get to know me and my experience, etc. and set up a hiring manager call.
Hiring manager call was standard 1hr mix of me describing my resume, some technical questions and him describing the team, the tech and the vision, after which they invited me on-site pending a Hackerrank challenge.
Hackerrank was one of those standard problem to be solved in 60 (or was it 90) minutes. Easy enough.
They arranged for flight and hotel for me on a really short notice, and that was excellent.
On the day itself, the process was pretty smooth. There were about 6 (or 5/7) interviews, and I interviewed with a couple team leads who grilled me on standard java, architecture, algorithm, data structures. Another interview about Graphs, and more with HM and VP.
I even ended up meeting the CEO for a brief 5 mins.
Overall, I was pretty satisfied, and the whole interview process was a non-stressful process if a bit exhausting .
The offer was quick and fair. Ended up declining the offer only because of a change in personal circumstances prevented me from taking up the offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Dynamic programming, Graphs, Data Structures, Java fundamentals, synchronization & thread safety, JVM details, etc etc.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at dataxu (Boston, MA) in Sept 2010
Interview
I was first contacted by a recruiter, who sent me a small programming project to complete. Upon review of my submission, a phone interview was set up with the director of engineering. I was then asked to come in for an interview. The interview at their offices lasted about 4 hours, and I met with everyone in the team, all the way up to the VP of Engineering.
The interviews were generally a friendly, conversational atmosphere. It seemed like it had already been determined that I could do the job, and the interviews were more to see if it would be a cultural fit.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Most of the questions were not actually technical, but conversational. I talked a little deeper about some work that I'd done. I was asking just as many questions as I was answering. That was definitely unexpected.
