I applied online. I interviewed at Block (San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2016
Interview
Quick and simple interview process. No pointless recruiter calls. 2 rounds of 1 hour phone interviews. Then 2 back to back 1 hour onsite interviews with lunch and a tour. Quick rejection and expense reimbursement emails after onsite.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They expect running code. For the onsite, be ready to code on a Mac and learn the default hotkeys for your preferred IDE or figure out how to import your hotkeys quickly.
There aren't many leetcode/CTCI questions. They ask about real world applications of data structures.
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Other Software Engineer Interview Reviews for Block
Inital take home, followed by extension interview, followed by a coding challenge, followed by system design interview.
The whole process took 3 months!
The interviewers are usually really nice and want you to do your best.
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.
