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Updated Mar 31, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Software Engineer Intern at Twitter
Posted Mar 31, 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 in Palo Alto, CA (took 2 weeks)
Questions were not very difficult. Solutions require good grasp of the fundamentals: e.g. binary search, hash tables, etc. 1 initial phone interview, 1 again after that, and if you pass the two phone screens, an on-site interview. First interview was pleasant, but the second one not so much. The guy doubted my running time of an algorithm and told be it was O(n^2) when it was clearly O(n). Maybe he misunderstood what I said.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer Intern at Twitter
Posted Jan 22, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 (took a day)
I conducted an initial phone interview with a Twitter engineer via the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers program. I interacted with two HR people via email before the phone interview.
The interview lasted about 30 minutes, and he only asked one technical question: implement the "getElementsByClassName" function using a simplified model of the DOM. This was based on my stated preference for front-end engineering. I went with a recursive solution to the problem, and after a couple minutes had it working most of the way. We talked about improvements to be made, such as a non-recursive algorithm, that would improve it's efficiency. Then I asked a few questions about Twitter.
I thought the question went reasonably well as I answered it correctly, but was surprised about the lack of other technical questions. He said I would get a followup within three days, but eventually I contacted the HR person to ask about the status of my application and got a rejection email very soon after with little explanation.
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I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer Intern at Twitter
Posted Apr 9, 2011
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 (took a day)
Applied via Twitter website for summer internship.
They contacted me about a week and a half later, very nice recruiting team. They said I would have to go through 3 phone interviews (and if you're in the area, the last one is you being invited to their offices).
Had a one hour phone interview with one of their employees. Had a bit of technical questions, and questions relating to my previous projects. Then was asked what I thought about Twitter and their mobile app.
Ultimately was declined about 5 days later, but it was still a good process nonetheless.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Skills Test.
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