I applied online. I interviewed at Calm (San Francisco, CA) in Jul 2021
Interview
There were 3 stages to the interview:
1. Recruiter Phone Screen
2. Technical Phone Screen
3. Virtual Onsite (1 coding interview, 1 system design interview, 1 behavioral/value interview)
The process was very smooth. The recruiters and interviewers were very engaged and responsive. The interview itself was not by any means difficult either.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The coding questions asked are not your standard LC questions, but they're not difficult. The questions are related to parsing a json input and manipulating the json data based on the interviewer's prompt. The recruiters guaranteed that there would be no DP-type questions and this was true.
One important thing you must do is clarify implementation details because the prompt they provide is inherently open-ended with multiple interpretations. They are measuring how well you can define the problem.
System design portion was also very standard. I was asked a very basic system design question that most people who are studying for system design interviews would have covered already.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Calm
Interview
- Non technical phone interview
- Behavioral interview with one of managers
- 1 round of solving DSA problem
- 1 round of solving system design problem
- 1 round of technical knowledge interview
- 1 round of non technical interview with product owner
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Calm (San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2022
Interview
Straight forward process. Easy to navigate. Talked to a Recruiter, then the hiring manager, other members of the team, office manager, finally the founders of the company. Timing was easy and went fast.
Recruiter was extremely fake, rude and sounded disinterested. You can tell I was just a diversity metric. I could tell she was waiting to get off the call.
Don’t list humility as a value if you can’t show it yourself.
