I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at X (San Francisco, CA) in Mar 2012
Interview
Most of the interviewers were great, asking awesome questions, sharing their experiences at the company. The last interviewer, however, was super bad, asking to write code on the whiteboard that consisted of detailed implementation in C++ (which I don't use for my job), recursive solution (which is usually not used on handheld devices that I code for a living), and excrutiating amount of unneeded details that she demanded was written through for the very specific problem she presented.
She was full of arrogance... Just like their CEO, whom I got to see in the cafeteria talking to my host, but who didn't even look my way (or made any effort to be... oh... a good host, at least).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe the perfect UI/Graphics designer that you'd like to work with.
Phone screen, followed by two coding rounds, one system design, and one HM/behavioral round. Prepare with LeetCode tagged questions related to data structures, algorithms, and system design topics. Prepare for Behavioural in STAR method.
Went through two screenings and virtual onsite. Technical team members were friendly and great to speak with. Recruiters were pretty awful - the one that set up the virtual onsite gave everybody different zoom links and trying to find the correct room to join really cut into my interview time and made me stressed out during the VO. Main recruiter scheduled a phone call to discuss results after the VO for when it was past midnight in my timezone but never called or responded to my followup.
To the recruiter: you don't need to try to keep me warm by scheduling a phone call and ghosting me when I only asked you whats the decision timeline. If its rejection just email to let me know instead of wasting more of my time especially when its late in my timezone.
In general this would've been a positive experience if the recruiters weren't so bad.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at X (London, England) in Apr 2025
Interview
Ho effettuato un colloquio conoscitivo con HR dopodiché una sessione di live coding e domande tecniche con il responsabile dell'area. Domande vertevano su vari algoritmi e complessità in termini di tempo e spazio
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Risoluzione di un problema algoritmico che richiedeva l'utilizzo della funzione xor
