Whitepages Interview Questions

First I received a call from the HR representative of the company. This was a very professional conversation and I learnt a lot about what they are looking for and how they go about interviewing. Then came the ArrayHopper coding homework (I liked the fact they applied this to managers as well). I completed it in about an hour and then spent another hour making sure there are no edge cases uncovered, then turned in. I then got a call more than a week later with the same recruiter telling me that "your program doesn't work", without any explanation. On request I was promised they'd send some more feedback details offline but that has never happened. This kind of blanket feedback is appalling, really hope that this is not a trademark of the company, just an unlucky one-off.

I was referred by a current employee. Internal recruiter contacted me a couple days later to schedule initial screening. She and I had an initial 30 minute phone call scheduled (it went for 45 minutes because of all my questions for her) . It was very back and forth making sure all of her questions about me were answered and that all my questions about the role and the company were answered as well. The next day we exchanged emails to schedule the in person interview loop. Since I would be a hiring manager of technical folks I interviewed with a mix of technical folks, Senior Management and product people. The interviews were conversational, detailed and thoughtful. Everyone I interacted with was excited about being a part of the company, explained the challenges in front of them and how this role would be key in solving those challenges. They asked good interview questions -- it was clear they weren't looking for a unicorn, but someone who could lead the people and the technology without coding it themselves or micromanaging. With the technical folks I was asked how I would solve X problem ( from both a management plan, down to the technical infrastructure pieces and tools I would put in place for implementation and how that would be architected). The interview loop was a little over 4 hours. 2 days later I was contacted via email to schedule a meeting with the internal recruiter so they could deliver the news that they were going to extend me an offer. The next day after I was called by the hiring manager with the details of the offer.

Emailed me with a Hackerrank challenge. No call from any real person, and email response was automated. Coding challenge took me 3 hours, did it genuinely. Checked later and found it was a hard leetcode question with a twist, and I still didn't get to go to the next step even though I met all the requirements. I doubt anyone actually looked at my code. Total waste of time.

Firstly I want to WARN everyone that applies with Whitepages to be aware that you will invest a lot of time for nothing. I will share my experience very detailed in order help other applicants to not go through the same BS like myself. 1. Interview: Video call with HR and the managers in charge for Amsterdam. Pretty straight forward usual questions nothing special. I received also quick feedback and got invited for a face to face interview in the office. 2. Interview: Face to face intervie with the manager in charge, usual questions finding out about the company as well as they about myself. Discussing the role and expectations, went well it was obvious they will invite me for the 3 and final round interview, however it was not clearly explained how the 3 interview will be and what is expected. HR reached out to me via email inviting me for the third round interview asking me to fill out some information about background checks references etc. as well as asking me to prepare a powerpoint presentation which I was supposed to present in the final interview. The task that I was supposed to prepare for the presentation was supposed to be shared with me 48 hours before the interview, which ofcours didn't happen, it was only shared with me after I wrote a reminder email. Additional key information, I was supposed to meet 8 different people during this final interview loop which by the way was scheduled for 5 HOURS ( I thought there must be a mistake) 3 interview: I arrive there to the agreed time, I got one coffee offered and tap water in the between and 2 breaks, apart from that it was basically like a interrogation talking to different people and departments getting all those fake questions asked. It is one of those interviews where you think are you here because they want to hire you or are they looking for reasons to not hire you. Bottom line, bunch of wannabe, time waste and not credible, you literally feel and see that they are internally not aligned as well as you need to be particularly weird to work there or you give up on your life. Last but not least they expect you to keep on agreed timelines and inform them on time but they themselves take the privilege to not do so.

Reached out to the hiring manager, met with him for coffee, then invited in for on-site loop which consisted of 4 one-on-one interviews with members of the team and managers, plus an exercise.

I received an online coding challenge via HackerRank. I spent a significant effort making sure it passed the edge cases. I went further, explained the code in comments and refactored it as well. No response. Not even a rejection. I sent a couple follow up emails and still nothing. Do not waste your time taking this challenge. It's not trivial and they don't even have the courtesy to respond. Spend your time studying or anything else productive.

Coding Challenge, 15 minute phone screen, 2 technical phone interviews, and a final onsite. While the engineers were great to talk to, and the culture seems great, but my recruiter lacked a lot of communication. Can't reveal more information, but it felt like they were telling me lies to stall for time.

Phone screen, and then a technical interview over the phone. I was inexperienced at technical interviews over the phone, not being able to see the other person was far more stressful than anticipated.

I can't really tell anything else that others already told... I applied for a job in Hungary through Glassdoor, they replied in a month (quite a long time for me). Than I did the online coding test, and about one week later the interview. There were 3 person present, first they introduced the company and the values, than started the discussing about my background and I got some tasks to solve and some questions about data science. The atmosphere was professional. One thing I can mention: HUNGARY: you must be present in the office around 17-18:00 every day due to live standup with the west coast - you might consider this before applying. Also they use the niche language Kotlin.