I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Trulia
Interview
Recruiter contacted me through LinkedIn and had an initial chat. Then a tech telephonic interview was scheduled. It had a mix of Java coding, SQL, mapreduce, questions on collections and concurrency. It went fine. I was invited for an in-person interview. There were 5 rounds of interview, including high level design and architecture, questions on Cassandra, HBase, then followed by low level concurrency questions, was asked to code a map reduce program and then finally a simple programming puzzle. Though I thought I did fine, I had couple of issues. I was told I was not fluent in whiteboard coding ( I know it was that puzzle) and as well did not show lot of enthusiasm. The best part of the interview process is the team was very friendly. Though I did not get the offer, I was never made to feel bad. The team was very respectful and encouraged me throughout the process.
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I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Trulia (San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2019
Interview
I had a phone screening and after phone screening, they asked me to complete an assignment After assignment I was invited to on-site interview.. On-site interview consisted of one behavioral, one data structure/algo and 4 domain-specific interviews. Overall experience was great. Their HR did a great job! Kudos to Josie and Vlad. They are the best recruiters I had the chance to work with.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Trulia (San Francisco, CA) in Feb 2018
Interview
Overall process was very professional from recruiter call to the offer. Started with a recruiter arranging for a phone conversation with the hiring manager. The interview with the hiring manager lasted 15-30 minutes and I was selected for an onsite interview. The onsite was over a half day and met with about 8-10 engineers. Everyone was nice to talk to and I had a great experience.
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Telephonic: Basic questions about resume and my experience. Hiring manager was very courteous.
Onsite: Met with several engineers. Questions ranged from a mix of system design to data structure/problem solving/analytical questions that involved white boarding. There were a few culture fit related questions as well and some resume based questions. Each interview had two interviewers and they were all kind and professional.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Trulia (San Francisco, CA) in Apr 2017
Interview
I did not receive an offer but I am so impressed with Trulia, the people and the dignity and respect of their hiring process. Specifically I would like to call out Chris Vensko, he called to tell me I was close but I didn't make it. He actually sounded disappointed the team didn't pick me.
When I arrived I received a thank you note with schedule, a gift bag and was given a tour.
The office was pretty cool and the team was cool. If you are on the fence I'd say send in your application.
