I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Block (San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2017
Interview
I was approached by a recruiter through Linkedin. Square has a very standard tech interview process. First spoke with the recruiter on a short call talking about my past experiences and so on. Next was a technical phone screen with an engineer with a simple programming question. After was an invitation to come onsite for a full day interview that consisted of 3 pair programming exercises, lunch, a design session and a one on one with a manager. My partners for the pair programming exercises were great and were more than willing to help and answer my questions. Overall great experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
All interviewers come up with their own questions so it is hard to generalize a set of questions but for my set it was centered around recursion
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The interviewer was nice, and he is friendly and willing to give hint, the question has 2 follow-ups, it was hard to complete in time. The question was not a typical LeetCode
Phone screen and then a full day of interviews. 3 pair programming challenges, a system design review and a prior experience interview. There was also an onsite lunch with a person from the company.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
To design a hotel booking system. Pick any part (backend, frontend, database, api etc) and deepdive into that, explaining the decisions along the way.
