Tango Software Engineer Interview Questions
& Process

The interview process started with a call with a recruiter, followed by a short tech screening. Then, there was a technical interview. Regarding the last part, it wasn't inherently difficult, but it was hard to grasp what the interviewers were looking for. I do technical interviews regularly, and in my opinion, this interview wasn't well-structured. It felt like random tricky questions, more like Kotlin puzzles than a real interview. Finally, there was a system design segment where I had to explain how I'd implement a custom view that handles its own data retrieval and is distributed as a library. I was rejected a few days later, which didn't bother me much given the questionable business area and the requirement for 4 days in the office.

So, the CEO hit me up on linkedin and we scheduled a non-tech phone interview, but then he couldn't make it, so I ended up chatting with someone else. That guy was cool and really helpful, and honestly, that was the only good part of dealing with this company. Later, we set up a 4-hour skype interview with four engineers, which was intense. On the day, the first guy was super late, like 50 minutes, and didn't say anything. I waited around for half an hour before emailing the recruiter. He apologized, but then kept checking his phone and smiling at it during our video call. I thought maybe it was just him, but nope. My second interviewer was okay. He asked me to code a pthread lock, which I managed even though I fumbled the syntax a bit. He asked a couple more things, then passed me to the next person, and that's when things got rough. So, I'm Chinese but got my education in the US. The second guy spoke Chinese with me, apparently after checking I spoke it. He must have mentioned it to the third guy, who just started speaking Chinese to me without any intro, not even telling me his name or role. I was a bit blindsided. This third guy was incredibly arrogant and rude. He wasn't educated in the US and didn't know basic terms. He didn't even know what SEGFAULT is when I tried to explain a bug I found in my code. Unbelievable! His tone was awful, felt like a police interrogation, and it almost made me cry, and I'm a guy!

Went through the interview process and it was pretty chill and well-organized. It had 3 stages. First was a technical interview checking out core skills and how I solve problems. The questions were good and the interviewer was chill about different solutions. Second was a managerial interview, getting into my past work, how I'd fit in, and my project management style. It was more of a chat than an interview. Third was the HR round, mainly about fitting into the company culture, what I expect, and other details.