Fivestars Software Engineer Interview Questions
& Process
Real candidates share what happened, how many rounds they had,
and how the experience turned out.
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Candidate interview experiences
First-hand accounts from people who interviewed at Fivestars.
Fivestars
Software Engineer
Intern Average Positive experience Decline offer 4 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen Onsite Panel
Interview formats
Technical System Design Behavioral
So there was a recruiter screen, then some standard technical interviews and a system design question. Also some behavioral stuff and meet the team interviews. It was an onsite interview, though that might have changed post-COVID.
Confirmed questions1 question
- How would you design a deck of cards?
Fivestars
Software Engineer
Senior Average Negative experience No offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen Technical screen
Interview formats
Coding Technical
The interview process began with a recruiter call, followed by two separate coding challenges. The coding challenges themselves were a negative experience because the interviewers were not senior developers. One interviewer was a junior developer and the other was fresh out of college. It's questionable why junior developers are interviewing senior candidates. The first coding challenge went okay and had an interesting task. However, the second interviewer was pretentious and uninterested in my background, focusing instead on an obscure JavaScript challenge. This challenge required deep knowledge of internal JavaScript behavior and was not well-designed. She then provided another challenge that was easily solvable without optimization. When I finished, she gave short, uninterested answers to my questions. Overall, it seems I avoided a bad fit given this interviewer's attitude.
Confirmed questions1 question
- How would you execute an asynchronous function without employing Promise or async/await syntax?
Fivestars
Software Engineer
Entry Average Positive experience No offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Phone screen
Interview formats
Technical Coding
I handed in my resume at a career fair and had a nice chat with a recruiter. Later that week, I got an email inviting me to a phone interview. The person I spoke with was friendly and relaxed. The question wasn't super difficult, but I think I could have given a better answer.
Confirmed questions1 question
- What is the longest increasing subset of a given list?
Fivestars Software Engineer Interview Questions
Quoted word for word from Fivestars interview reports.
“What is the longest increasing subset of a given list?”
Read reports →“What is the water level problem? Given an array of ints, consider a bar graph of width 1 and length of the ints in the array, find the area of water level within the bars.”
Read reports →“Can you solve a variation of the largest common subsequence problem?”
Read reports →“How would you shuffle an array randomly?”
Read reports →“Can you implement a queue using two stacks, including enqueue, dequeue, and peek operations?”
Read report →“How would you execute an asynchronous function without employing Promise or async/await syntax?”
Read report →“How would you install dependencies in order?”
Read report →“Can you suggest any improvements for the Fibonacci problem?”
Read report →“How would you design a deck of cards?”
Read report →Formats, difficulty and experience
Across all 9 Fivestars interview reports.