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I applied online. I interviewed at Rakuten (New York, NY) in Oct 2016
Interview
Applied online. A month later I was asked to complete a code challenge on Codility and do an online interview. Not a live interview, just recording myself. The five interview questions are given ahead of time so it is easy to prepare for it. I had 1 hour for the Codility test and 5 minutes for each of the interview questions. Received an email a week later indicating no longer in consideration.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The Codility Test was about taking an integer and determine how many different arrangements of the number are possible. So if given, 132, arrangements are 132, 123, 231, 213, 312, 321. So the function should return 6.