VideoAmp Software Engineer Interview Questions
& Process

I went through 6 virtual interviews and 1 online coding assessment. They rescheduled my meetings a few times. I finished all the interviews, but they sent an automated decline email after a week. The technical interview was supposed to be a system architecture meeting, but it turned out to be a live HackerRank coding session with the interviewer. This whole process was unprofessional.

The interview process included two HackerRank assessments that focused on MySQL and Scala skills. This was followed by an on-site interview. The first on-site stage involved a straightforward coding task in Scala, where the goal was to fix code so that unit tests would pass. After that, two engineers presented a simple Scala and MySQL problem. Then there was a 20-minute discussion with the program manager. The final round was with the Engineering Director, discussing strategies for scaling a REST API to handle millions of requests. The engineering team was pleasant to interact with, though the interview felt a bit disorganized. I was initially told I'd receive detailed feedback within three days, but this didn't happen. My follow-up emails and voicemails went unanswered, leading me to contact one of the interviewers on LinkedIn for a response. The day after I reached out, I received an email stating my rejection, without any specific feedback on why, despite solving all their problems and reaching the final interview stage. The process also involved a promise of travel cost reimbursement for my non-CA residence. After submitting my receipts, there was no response. An update mentioned that after posting a review and speaking with a friend who referred me, VideoAmp contacted me a week later, apologized for the situation, and promptly reimbursed my travel expenses.

It was a pretty standard interview process, I met with a recruiter first, then the hiring manager. After that, I had a take-home coding assessment, and then a series of meetings with different employees in the organization.