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Updated May 23, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.

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Overall Negative Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed May 2012 (took 6 weeks)

It took about 6 weeks from initial application to the request to set up the interview. The interviewer was late and, while he apologized, seemed very rushed. Most of the questions focused on the job I currently hold (specifically, what I enjoy in my current position an the size/composition of the organization) rather than on the job to which I had applied. There was no context provided for this interview within the hiring process or for the position within the company. All in all, the experience was very unsatisfying. I didn't feel as if I was able to accurately represent my skills, or that the interview accurately represented the company. Could have been a one-off thing - interviewe having a bad day or a position that was likely to be filled internally, for example - but it felt sort of haphazard as a candidate measurement tool.

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Unexpected: why have you been with your organization for so long (5 years) ? Do you think it's going to be hard to go from a large company to a start-up?

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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jan 2012 (took 3 months)

Met the heads of the company at a special career fair, very personable. Took a month to hear anything back but after that the process was quick. It was clear they took the time to learn extensively about my personal projects and previous work. First was a non-technical phone interview just to get to know what kind of position or fit I was most interested in. They scheduled an on-site that very conversation. I decided to schedule it a month away because of my schedule at the time, but they were willing to do it that week. Went in to the office, great atmosphere and culture. The interview lasted a very long time. They said it was 4 hours but it ended up being 5. It consisted of around 6 1-on-1 interviews. They were all completely technical, although they gave time for other questions I had. I did well on one or two but did poorly on quite a few of them. A big factor is fatigue, I would recommend taking their offers for water breaks which I did not. By the last interview I was very fatigued and that was probably the most important one. Got an email claiming no-offer a few days later. All the interviewers were personable.

Interview Questions

Write a function to check if a string is in another string.

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I applied In-Person and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Oct 2011 (took 3 weeks)

Was contacted through a social site saying they are interested in me, tool about a week to set up phone interview with recruiting manager who sounded very positive, took another week for phone interview with dept head who asked many questions regarding current experience. Was told i would get a response with the week, took 2 weeks to get a vague response.

Interview Questions

didnt ask any direct questions other than experience related.

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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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5.0

Very Difficult Interview

Overall Negative Experience

Received and Declined Offer

Interviewed Oct 2011 in Brooklyn, NY (took a day)

Extremely rude, stress coding with statements like "we're code agnostic" yet no answer provided is in the language they want. Also, get ready to stress code algorithms while receiving criticism during the process and forget any small talk.

Interview Questions

Given the set a a b b a a c c b b of unknown length, write an algorithm that figures out which occurs most frequently and with the most continuous repetition.

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Reason for Declining

I can only imagine this place a nightmare to work at. Seriously, who treats people this way?

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jun 2010 (took 2 weeks)

I found this job posting on Craigslist and applied there. I was contacted very quickly by someone who was not HR (closer to management), with whom I had a quick "personality/experience" phone chat. I was then passed over to someone in recruiting who handled everything from that point forward. I had a 1:1 with an engineer on the team that was hiring. This was face to face and seemed to be more focused on team fit. It was technical only in that we talked about what technologies I had used. No algorithms or code. (I happened to be in the area, so a face to face was convenient)

The next interview was with an engineer and invovled some data type/algorithm questions, and very specific questions about .NET (which is what I know, not what they use). I bombed this one.

My working experience was very different from the technologies that they used, yet I was given a fair chance and was not asked questions that I could not have answered (eg. about Java API, Linux, etc).

Although I did not end up with an offer, the interview process was very clean and professional. People were quick to respond and the interviewers were all very nice and respectful and asked relevant questions. It definitely reflects well on the company and I would not hesitate to apply for other openings.

Interview Questions

Probably a one-off, just because of my experience: What do you use in C# .NET to allow arithmetic overflows to occur (instead of throwing an exception)?

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