I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at CrowdStrike (Dublin, Dublin) in Dec 2024
Interview
Standard interview process consisting of following rounds
first round was introduction round with HR
second round was Coding Round
third round was System Design round
last was Behavioral
I got rejected in the coding round itself
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In introduction round, they asked about the challenging task that I have done in the past, some rapid fire questions. In the coding round I was asked to implement some data structure. I wrote n log n solution. After interview I realized that I should have used heap data structure.
Very disorganized. Interviewers were very unprofessional, and hostile. They emailed me saying they are not moving forward with me then emailed me again the next day to schedule another call.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at CrowdStrike
Interview
Was interviewed by engineers and managers from 2 different teams. The auth team and cloud engineering team. Had a few rounds with engineers from cloud engineering team and the team was very professional with their approach. The regular workout it LC based questions and queries on handling race conditions. Had another 2 rounds with the auth team one with an engineer and another was the final round with the manager. The one with the engineer was easily the worst interview i had to sit through. The engineer was dealing with some high sev issue and clearly had their hands full and was unable to concentrate on the interview. Despite me offering to reschedule if this was not a good time they went ahead with the interview which was medium level LC question that I am sure i got right. They had no comments on the code and just wanted to get of the call. The other round was with someone at higher levels from the auth team whose primary expectation seemed to be to find someone who would stretch without any questions. Should have the titled the role "Senior Slave Engineer".
On a personal level I would recommend AVOID the auth team at all costs. For the sane folks in that team my heart goes out to you. Culture within that team seems not so great.
Everything went very smoothly during the interview. After a brief introduction, we moved directly into the coding part, which was handled in a LeetCode-style format. There wasn’t much discussion beforehand, as the focus was primarily on problem-solving and implementation, making the process clear, structured, and efficient.