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Updated May 24, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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QA at Pocket Gems
Posted May 24, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 (took 2 weeks)
8 people took the interview
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Mobile Engineer at Pocket Gems
Posted Apr 11, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2012 in San Francisco, CA (took 3 days)
Pocket Gems contacted me through LinkedIn. They had 6 interviewers. Most of them are nice. They asked me more product questions than I had anticipated. They would make an product for you, and ask you to find the problems that you would encounter going to market. The interview took three days, two for phone screens, and then one day spent onsite.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Software Engineer at Pocket Gems
Posted Apr 11, 2012
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 (took a day)
I had an initial informal interview with the campus recruiter who got me a technical phone interview. The technical interview was on the phone, was 45 minutes long, and consisted of two programming questions that were relatively easy. The recruiter was pretty friendly, and the interviewer was pretty cordial. I felt confident about the interview, but I was told I wasn't a good fit.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Server Engineer at Pocket Gems
Posted Mar 9, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 in San Francisco, CA (took a day)
I initially contacted Pocket Gems through the career fair at my university; I gave them my resume at that time. Shortly after that, they contacted me to schedule an initial technical interview with a software development manager. The first interview was difficult, but I apparently answered the questions well enough to be invited back for three more technical interviews with Pocket Gems software engineers. I went through a total of four in-person 1-on-1 technical interviews, each lasting approximately 45 minutes. After I completed those interviews, a recruiter notified me within a few days to notify me that Pocket Gems would be offering me a job, and a different recruiter contacted me a couple of days after that to give me the specifics of the offer.
My advice: the interview questions will be difficult, but be confident, explain your thought process well, and retain your composure even if you think the interview is going badly. You might be doing better than the interviewer is letting on.
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Negotiation Details
I didn't try to negotiate anything other than the start date. I felt the initial offer was much more than reasonable for someone just getting out of school, especially given the current economic climate.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Software Engineer at Pocket Gems
Posted Mar 6, 2012
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 in San Francisco, CA (took 3 days)
I met them when they came to my campus. I did an interview then and then flew to San Francisco.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer at Pocket Gems
Posted Mar 4, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 in San Francisco, CA (took a day)
It was normal for a tech interview. A bunch of algorithmy-type interviews. There were hard problems, but I don't think you had to solve them all to get hired. They called me a couple days later to tell me I got accepted.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer at Pocket Gems
Posted Mar 1, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 (took a day)
I got the call through linkedin.
I had the HR screening, followed by the technical phone interview where I had to write code.
There was a huge gap between the two, I had other prior work commitments (releases). They were accommodating about that.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Server Programmer at Pocket Gems
Posted Feb 23, 2012 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in San Francisco, CA (took 3 days)
Pocket Gems did a presentation at my school's job fair last year. I wanted to finish up a research project before starting interviews. I interviewed at Pocket Gems and four other technology companies. All of the questions were sort of similar. The first phase was a 90 minute phone screen with an programmer. Next was talking with a hiring manager about where a good fit would be, which we decided would probably be server programming (backend). Then I went to their office for a full day of interviews. The questions were all programming focused.
Interview Questions
[The interviewer had a printout of some legendarily bad code. The point of the question was to point out all of the mistakes and re-write it.]
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Mobile Developer at Pocket Gems
Posted Feb 29, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 (took a day)
good company, just be prepared for coding questions, no behavioral
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Other Details
I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Mobile Engineer at Pocket Gems
Posted Feb 24, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in San Francisco, CA (took 3 days)
Three phone calls. One with the HR director that was mostly fit questions, and then 2 almost back-to-back interviews with programmers. I went to their office the next week. They flew me out there and paid for everything.
Interview Questions
Find the largest palindrome made from the product of two 3-digit numbers.
Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Background Check.
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