I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Qualtrics (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2015
Interview
Typical recruiter phone screen to tell you a little bit about the company and make sure you are sane. Followed by a technical phone screen which occurred a couple days later. I can't remember what questions they asked during the phone screen, but I don't think it was anything too tricky since I don't remember.
They then flew me out for an onsite in Seattle early the next week and paid for Hotel/Food etc. The hotel was nice enough, but almost 30 minutes away from the interview. Seemed a little far and in the opposite direction of the airport.
The people there were great and very nice. We did the interview in a lounge area instead of a conference room which I thought was very neat. They have a really cool office, with lots of games spread about, and it's in an awesome location. They also provided lunch, which they mentioned was free every day, but didn't have a whole lot of time to eat it while I was there. No biggie though. Overall atmosphere was great.
They told me it would be about a week to get back feedback, which I thought was strange given that my other offers had come within 1-2 days. I also mentioned that I had pending offers during this time. They ended up taking almost two weeks to get back to me with an offer, and I had to extend the deadline for one of my offers. In the end, the offer wasn't competitive enough. It was OK. Additionally, while the relocation bonus was great, the fact that you have to pay it back if you leave within 2 years kind of raised some red flags (I understand the want for ROI, but forcing people to pay if they're not happy after a year is a little extreme).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a linked list, where each node in the list has an array which can contain 4 integers at max, implement a get(index) and a insert(index).
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Qualtrics
Interview
The whole process was remote. I was referred by a friend who works here.
1. Chat with recruiter
2. Chat with hiring manager (behavioral questions)
3. Coding Question on hacker rank
4. System Design question - interviewer didn't turn on camera, said very little throughout the process
The recruiter told me that they had been slow in making a decision, that they will get back to me. They never got back to me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time that you made a mistake. How did you handle it?
Started with a Recruiter screen - overview about company
ML Knowledge - basics of LLMs and your relevant projects
LeetCode - two basic easy and med leetcode problems
Takes a long time to hear back after each round - better to reach out after each round to ask about next steps.
First step is recriuter screen. Then 45 min technical with a software engineer, final round is 90 min technical and 30 min behavioral. They will have you schedule them on a web service called goodtime. Interviewer was very friendly.