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Updated May 25, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Amazing Software Engineer Intern at Rapleaf
Posted May 25, 2012
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4.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2012 (took 1 week)
First is online test. Exactly the same as mentioned previously.
1.IMDB database
2.bubble sort vs merge sort
3. Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
4. 5 rolls of a six sided dice, probability that you will get at least two 4s
5. why rapleaf?
Two days after the online test, they scheduled a phone interview. The interviewer mainly asked about Degrees of Kevin Bacon and how to integrate this into the database.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Skills Test.
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Software Engineer at Rapleaf
Posted Apr 27, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 (took 2 weeks)
I applied online and received a link to an online test. I received feedback about two days later and they scheduled a technical phone interview with me. The phone interview was about 45 min long and was about BFS. The interviewer was really nice. They gave me yet another technical phone interview after that. This time, the interviewer asked me a probability question. I answered it correctly but did not explain it clearly. That was the end of my interview process.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.
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Software Engineer at Rapleaf
Posted Apr 15, 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 Apr 2012 (took 1 week)
First online test, including 5 questions, about database design, dice problem, why you are interested in rapleaf. After that, you are required to build an application using their API.
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Software Engineering Intern at Rapleaf
Posted Feb 6, 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 Jan 2012 (took 2 weeks)
the first step was to fill in an online screening test, which was pretty basic- there was questions about how i would store information in a database, and given a database of movies + the actors that appear in each movie, how to find how connected 2 actors are
next was a phone interview, basically asked about how to optimize bfs between 2 points on a graph
next was another phone interview where i was asked about previous internship experience, and about the same bfs question. then i was asked question about basketball- something like if the pr of making a shot from this line = a, and the pr of making a shot from this further line = b, if you need to make x throws from the 1st line or y throws from the 2nd line, which would you choose?
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Amazing Software Engineer Intern at Rapleaf
Posted Feb 5, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 (took 2 weeks)
They first give you a screening interview that contains a couple of puzzles. It's all done online and takes one hour - but there wasn't a one hour counter so I did not know how much time I had left at any given time, a bit strange. The emails I received at least, were very nice.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Skills Test.
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Marketing at Rapleaf
Posted Jan 25, 2012 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 in San Francisco, CA (took a day)
I submitted my resume via their website. After waiting a while for someone to respond, I decided to call them and get some feedback. I managed to convince the receptionist to put me in touch with the person who posted the job (the link mentioned the person's name). I talked to her for a few minutes and realized that even though she was the recruiter, she had no idea who I was or where I was in the system.
A short time later, I got the boilerplate "thank you but no thank you letter" - I laughed and tossed it because it was riddled with spelling and grammar errors.
Epilogue: After getting the e-Mail, I decided to dig deeper into Rapleaf and saw what they had to offer. Considering that I have been in their industry for a VERY long time (a lot longer than their CEO for that matter), I was unable to see how they differentiate themselves from the others in their space. Looking deeper, I decided to look at the executive staff and found blogs written by the CEO. Needless to say, I was not impressed. While Auren could be a nice guy in person, one thing is for sure -- he definitely loves himself and thinks he's infallible. I checked out his LinkedIn profile and confirmed why that was the case -- he happened to be at the right place and at the right time with a few companies and dumped them making a tidy profit along the way.
Avoid this place like the plague unless you perceive yourself as a "type A" personality who is willing to deal with a younger version of Larry Ellison, Marc Beninoff and the like but without the experience or class that they have.
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Amazing Software Engineering Summer Intern at Rapleaf
Posted Jan 28, 2012 — 0 of 2 people found this helpful
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4.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in San Francisco, CA (took a day)
Absolutely the most impersonal interviewing process I've ever been through. I added one of their infosessions at UCLA and dropped off a resume. The presentation was so so and the recruiter was boring. If it wasn't for the free food, I would have left after the first 5 mins.
A few days later, I got an email with a link to an online quiz that they do instead of an initial phone interview. Given that I was a first year computer science major, the quiz was somewhat difficult. They asked questions about database, algorithms, probability etc. and the most bizzarre one, why you would want to work at a company like Rapleaf?
I'm sorry, Rapleaf is not Google or Apple, asking that question seems a little overconfident.
Basically, all the questions were irrelevant and probably irrelevant on the job as well. The disappointing part is that I actually expected them to be hiring someone with a personality since their job description wanted "fun, outgoing, team worker", etc.
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Also: you were offered the following bet: we pay you $1000 if you roll at least two 4s but you have to pay Rapleaf $1000 if you don't. Would you take the bet? Why or why not?
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Presentation and an IQ/Intelligence Test.
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Software Engineering at Rapleaf
Posted Jan 6, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 (took a day)
Applied online, got email asking me to take an 1-hour test, took it, fairly easy, did not hear back from them for three weeks. Then they got back to me, asking if I got the link to the second test. I replied, saying No. They replied, saying that I failed the first test, addressing me with another person's name. This makes me feel that they were sort of unprofessional.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Skills Test.
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Software Engineer at Rapleaf
Posted Oct 14, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 (took 1 week)
The interview process was completely unprofessional. An engineer guy from the company call me and ask questions about my general background. Then he asked me to explain the breadth first search and how to improve it.
Question:
Why do you want to work at Rapleaf?
What kind of technical as well as nontechnical challenges do you think we have to face at Rapleaf?
What is your most recent project? Tell me about it?
How do you implement the breadth first search? How do you find the shortest distance between the two nodes? How do you improve breadth first search?
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer at Rapleaf
Posted Sep 30, 2011
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 in San Francisco, CA (took a day)
I got a online test, and it is very easy. It is like the problems posted on this website, I did them very quickly and I think the answers are all accurate. I finished and after a short time they send me a email about that my background is not very fit to the position but they will maintain my data, and notify me if there's a fit.
Ok, it seems that they never see the resume before, if they think I am not fit, why sending me the online test and waste my time to do those stupid problems? This company is so un-proffessional and I have never seen a company like this before.
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