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      Software Engineer, Tools and Platform Interview

      Feb 22, 2019
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      New York, NY
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Quora, Inc. (New York, NY) in Feb 2019

      Interview

      Applied through their career site, which is powered by lever. Got response the next day. Set up a chat with recruiter, followed by phone interview. Phone interview was quite hard. Was asked to implement a string search function first, but I forgot the implementation details of KMP or any algorithm that does this in O(n), so the interviewer gave me another question involving calculating average webpage load times over some time period (q4 below) and I solved it perfectly. They do expect you to write fully tested working code so beware. On-site interview consists of 1 coding, 1 system design, 1 practical and 1.5 behavioral interviews. Technical portions were okay with slight mistakes on system design question. However, the behavioral interview went quite poorly. The hiring manager asked questions like a machine and I couldn't see whether or not he liked my answer and he refused to comment on any of my answers. Overall experience is okay but I honestly don't like the hiring manager. A week after on-site (today) I received an email saying I was rejected. Recruiter refused to provide any additional details by ghosting.

      Interview questions [4]

      Question 1

      Random Map - support random value retrieval in O(1)
      Answer question

      Question 2

      string search (KMP algorithm etc...)
      Answer question

      Question 3

      Design frontend A/B testing and performance evaluation system
      Answer question

      Question 4

      You're given a stream of timestamp and webpage load time pairs, with timestamp monotonically increasing. Implement a class which supports calculating average webpage load time across all events in the past X mins.
      1 Answer