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Software Engineer
Mid Average Negative experience No offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Technical screen Onsite Recruiter call
Interview formats
Technical Coding
The whole thing took about 5 months. I did my onsite in early Jan and then had to chase recruiters for updates, sometimes without any response. Felt like they forgot about me. They made me do an extra interview, which I did and got good feedback on, but in the end, they couldn't find a team for me. It took 2 months after the onsite to get the rejection. I got feedback from the interviews and it felt like the expectations were higher than what's normal for a mid-level role, with some very specific feedback on minor things. They seem to want to be like FAANG but without the pay, equity, or good reviews. The company seems pretty disorganized.
Confirmed questions4 questions
- Solving Leetcode style questions
- Discussing trees
- Exploring backtracking
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Solutions Engineer
Senior Average Negative experience No offer 5 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Phone screen Technical screen Panel Onsite
Interview formats
Behavioral Technical Group
So first I had an HR interview, then about a week later, I had an interview with the hiring manager. About another week after that, I had two technical interviews, then a panel interview, and then a culture fit interview, all like, back to back. Then I waited for 10 weeks, and HR kept telling me they were 'waiting for all the feedback to come in'. Finally, they let me go after I told them their third-party recruiters were contacting people for the same job I applied for.
Confirmed questions1 question
- What is your plan if you decided to start a bakery business?
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Firmware Engineer
Mid Average Positive experience No offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Technical screen Onsite Panel
Interview formats
Technical Coding
I got asked pointer and array questions, all in C/C++. There were many 'leap-like' questions. One interviewer asked hardware questions, involving hardware equipment like oscilloscopes. The people were very friendly. I reached the final round, but they hired someone else.
Confirmed questions1 question
- What is the difference between a uint32 pointer and a uint8 pointer?
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Engineering Manager
Manager Average Negative experience No offer 7 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen Onsite Presentation Panel Background check Offer
Interview formats
Behavioral Technical System Design Presentation
So, there was one screener, then a high-level chat, followed by three interviews with other EMs, one with a PM, and a system design interview. That's SEVEN interviews in total. Honestly, it felt like a leftover from when they were part of Google, which is not a good thing, especially for a leadership role. They seemed to only care about quantitative data, which isn't a great way to judge a leader. I think I would have done better if I'd just listed keywords instead of actually talking about leadership. After all those hours of interviews, I just got a generic rejection email and no one responded when I asked for feedback.
Confirmed questions8 questions
- Can you describe your leadership philosophy and provide examples?
- What are your primary responsibilities as an Engineering Manager?
- How do you approach difficult conversations with direct reports?
Verily Interview Questions
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“What is the most frequent k element in a string?”
Read reports →“What is the difference between a uint32 pointer and a uint8 pointer?”
Read reports →“How would you find all paths from point A to point B in a maze?”
Read reports →“For connecting a hermetic feedthrough to a hybrid electrically, what joining method would you pick?”
Read reports →“Following that, can you create a function that accepts this array and an integer K, to then return the K users who used the most words in their messages?”
Read report →“Can you write a function to parse a chat message file into an array of objects, each containing username and word count per message?”
Read report →“Write a Java class from scratch to solve a LeetCode style problem.”
Read report →“Can you write a SQL query to organize a database?”
Read report →“Imagine you had to design this without a phone; what alternative devices might you consider?”
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