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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Nov 24, 2019
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      San Francisco, CA

      Other Senior Software Engineer Interview Reviews for Medium

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Sep 14, 2020
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Mountain View, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Medium (San Francisco, CA)

      Interview

      The interview process was good and empathetic. There was a phone screen with the hiring manager followed by an online coding assessment followed by an on-site. Coding assessment was practical and interesting. Onsite questions were mostly behavioral. The coding question for the onsite was quite easy and was testing more for code cleanliness. There was one systems design question that was also good and practical but I think it was a bit vague what they were looking for. Overall good process, the only bad part was it took 4 weeks to hear back. I didn’t get the offer, likely due to a slightly weaker systems design interview on my part but no hurt feelings. I’d interview here again if given a chance.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Simple programming question
      2 Answers
      1
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Medium (Mountain View, CA) in Jul 2020

      Interview

      Referred by a recruiter. Seems like they have the children running the show because that's all that is left there or it's management's way of training them how to interview. I don't think I've ever had more awkward conversations with a company. While I don't mind being judged by junior devs and managers, they seemed to lack a certain maturity that one becomes accustomed to at other firms. For example, I had to ask one person to turn off their music while I worked on their problem. Overall this was a huge waste of time between the take home assessment and the 3 rounds of interviews. Reading other reviews, seems like they change up the process a bit, too.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      count words in a paragraph and return the top N.
      2 Answers
      1

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      May 15, 2019
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Medium

      Interview

      Began with basic recruiter calls, was sent an easy take home test that consisted of two questions. The first question was just simple data manipulation, the second one expanded on the first solution and included an edit history of the data provided. I ended up not getting an offer as I did very poorly with the on site interview.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      How would you keep track of edits for an article provided to you as strictly stricter JSON
      Answer question
      2