Futurex Interview Questions
& Process

I had a 30-minute interview over Teams with the hiring manager. They were really nice and explained the role in detail, which is heavily focused on AWS support. We both realized that my experience is more on the DevOps side. I sent a thank you note afterwards and inquired if they would consider someone who could grow into the position, but they were not open to it. Overall, it was a good interview experience, despite not moving forward.

I applied for this role through my college and then had to formally apply on their website. About a week later, I had a phone interview. It started off okay with introductions and why I was interested in the company. But then the technical questions came, and I was kind of surprised. I mean, I applied for a Web Applications Developer role, so I expected questions about web development. Instead, I got one JavaScript question, one about pointers in C, one about garbage collection, and then about my favorite data structure. It was strange that the questions weren't really related to the job I applied for. The next day, I got an email saying I didn't get the position.

I sent in my resume and cover letter, and then got asked to do a take-home coding challenge. I did pretty good on that, and they flew me out for an interview. The interview had me talk about my past coding work and then do a 1-hour coding challenge in C. I was super tired and didn't sleep well the night before, so I totally bombed the interview. Also, the interviewers were kinda intense and made it super stressful. They weren't great at communicating, so their questions were confusing and hard to answer. They asked questions really fast and seemed to want perfect, expected answers. When I tried to ask for clarification or add detail, they'd interrupt me and give the answer themselves, looking at me like I was dumb. The coding challenge itself wasn't crazy hard, but it was a lot of questions to get through fast. There were about 10 C questions, and I had to type them in a text editor without being able to compile. I dunno what that proves, 'cause I never code without compiling and testing. It was like writing code in Microsoft Word. Right after, I interviewed with Microsoft and they let me compile and gave me 2 hours for 5 problems. FutureX seemed to care more about just getting a lot of answers done, not really considering time/space complexity, and testing for obscure edge cases. I think they didn't offer me the job because I'm not used to coding without compiling. Overall, I think I'd have issues with their management because they seem inflexible with expectations but also super unclear about what they want. I'm not surprised others call it a boys club. It does seem like a cool company with a good product, nice campus, and interesting projects though. But seriously, arrogance and poor communication aren't professional. Their interview process didn't really show what I can do, though I'm still mad I did so badly because I was exhausted. Still, I'm glad I got the chance to interview and see the company, it wasn't a total waste for interview experience.

It all kicked off with this webinar thing, you know, about the company - who they are, what they do, who they sell to. Then, they hit us with an untimed coding challenge. Basically, they sent over some code and asked us to make it better. After that, a phone call. They chatted about the company again, gave more deets on the work vibe, and I got to ask my questions. The last part was this on-site thing, lasted like 4 hours. First, a chat with someone who recapped the company stuff. Then, we talked about my coding test solution. After that, I met the project leads, and bam, another coding test. This one had 10 problems, varying difficulty, with a one-hour time limit to see how many we could nail. We wrapped up with a group interview with the project leads, where we went over the second coding test and they answered my remaining questions. Oh, and a campus tour was thrown in. Pretty cool experience overall.