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      Senior Software Engineer - Web Applications Interview

      Oct 19, 2016
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Santa Clara, CA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Ooyala (Santa Clara, CA) in Oct 2016

      Interview

      1. Resume screening with the recruiter. Standard questions related to your technical background and work experience. 2. Phone screen: How would you iterate through linked list using Javascript and return kth element? Find all instances of anagrams in an array. It went well to recruiter reached out to me immediately and we scheduled onsite quickly. 3. Onsite: 6 Rounds of 45 minute interview. 1st Round: Resume screening and questions related to your current projects. I have experience with streaming content and extensive experience with advertisement so 45 minutes went by really fast. 2. Technical round: Pay special attention here. Understand the question before hand because I had hard time understanding the question from the interviewer and had to ask many clarifying questions which he did not like. Also avoid using closure to solve this problem. Implement a function that accepts continuous stream of speed and a flag(true/false) and print speed when user clicks on a button. Additional conditions: a) user can continuously press button so we may get false positive. b) There may be some interference in this stream so consider that as well. 3. Lunch interview: Spoke about our projects that we are working on, company culture and things like that. 4. Interview with Product Manager: We spoke about our work style and some of the project that I worked on. He asked me what do I look in a product manager and some other questions. 5. Interview with 2 More Engineers: a) Design an app for Chess. I do not play chess a lot. But I described basic Data Structure and methods to be used to add functionality. b) Design an app for TinyURL: Described all the methods that will be used and the API calls. In the end I asked shall we think of more scenarios and he replied saying don't worry its a good design and you did well. 6. Interview with Hiring manager: He asked me questions related to my background and I asked questions about their eco system. Overall there was a good communication by recruiter during the entire process. Team is excellent. I did not receive the offer saying that I took longer to understand the problem and solve part of the problem as compared to other candidates. This makes me think that they have heavy emphasis on a single round of interview out of 5 other rounds. I am not concerned about the rejection as I have 3 other offers waiting but this could have been a good fit for both of us.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Implement a function that accepts continuous stream of speed and a flag(true/false) and print speed when user clicks on a button. Additional conditions: a) user can continuously press button so we may get false positive. b) There may be some interference in this stream so consider that as well.
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      Ooyala response
      9y
      Thank you so much for taking the time to come in and meet with the team. Sorry it wasn't a fit. Best of luck to you in the new year!