FreeWheel 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 FreeWheel.
FreeWheel
Software Engineer
Intern Average Positive experience Accept offer 1 round
Interview process
Technical screen
Interview formats
Coding
I had just one round with the director of the software engineering team I would be joining. It was a technical interview where they asked me a LeetCode question of medium difficulty.
Confirmed questions1 question
- Solve the LeetCode problem: Top K Frequent Elements.
FreeWheel
Software Engineer
Entry Average Negative experience No offer 4 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Phone screen Technical screen Onsite
Interview formats
Behavioral Technical Coding
Had a good initial screening with HR and the hiring manager, they talked about the role and team structure. Then I had a final round interview. The first interview was good, we introduced ourselves and then jumped into coding questions. The next interview was disorganized and rude, the interviewer didn't know my status and asked about prior interviews. I thought it would be similar and brief to get to coding, but we spent 40 minutes discussing a technology I barely know. The interviewer wouldn't accept my explanation and kept talking about it. With 15 minutes left, we started a python question. I solved it in <5 minutes. He asked for another implementation but missed crucial info needed for the variation. This interview was a waste of time. I wouldn't want to work here. They should ensure interviewers know candidate skill sets and backgrounds for final rounds. I was also told I'd be tested on SQL and didn't get any questions.
Confirmed questions3 questions
- Can you discuss RDDs and explain the inner workings of Hadoop?
- Tell me about your experience with RDDs and how Hadoop operates.
- Discuss RDDs and how Hadoop works under the hood.
FreeWheel
Senior Software Engineer
Senior Average Negative experience No offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Phone screen Onsite Offer
Interview formats
Coding Technical Behavioral
I was contacted by a recruiter, then had a phone chat that included some coding. After that, I went onsite to meet with a product manager and three engineers. Things seemed to go really well, but then I didn't hear back for a couple of weeks. I reached out for an update, and they said they hadn't made a decision yet. I waited another two weeks, and it was the same situation. After five weeks, I got an offer from another company and accepted it. I let them know I'd accepted another offer, and they insisted on calling the next day to say they'd decided not to move forward.
Confirmed questions2 questions
- Can you generate a sequence of semi-prime numbers?
- How would you traverse a generic graph?
FreeWheel Software Engineer Interview Questions
Quoted word for word from FreeWheel interview reports.
“Given a linked list, remove all nodes with values greater than a specified threshold.”
Read reports →“Find a location that minimizes the total travel distance for all residents, given city coordinates and populations.”
Read reports →“How do you find the sum of substrings?”
Read reports →“Solve the LeetCode problem: Top K Frequent Elements.”
Read reports →“Can you generate a sequence of semi-prime numbers?”
Read report →“How would you traverse a generic graph?”
Read report →“Or, what about handling conditions to remove prime numbers from the list?”
Read report →“For example, what if the conditions involve adding numbers from 1 to 100 at the start of the list?”
Read report →“Explain or implement Depth First Search (DFS).”
Read report →Formats, difficulty and experience
Across all 19 FreeWheel interview reports.