I applied for a frontend position but was interviewed by a backend engineer. When I mentioned my preference for backend work, the interviewer switched to backend-related questions. I was asked about: 1. The tradeoffs between integrated services and multiple mi...
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### Round 1: Phone Screen (30 minutes) The HR person gave me a meeting link. I thought I would be talking with HR, but I was asked to turn on my video and found an engineer interviewing me. The interviewer introduced himself and his team, then asked me to intr...
I applied for a Global Decision Data Scientist position in NYC after seeing it on my school's mailing list. About a month later, HR contacted me to schedule two rounds of technical phone screens. The email indicated one round would focus on ML and the other on...
This onsite interview process focused on ETL, data modeling, and system design within a big data context. I was told that although code was to be written during the technical interviews, it would not be executed. The recruiter was helpful and provided thorough...
### Phone Screen In the phone screen, the interviewer asked me two questions. The interviewer was not very engaging but clear in their explanations. 1. Given a campus with buildings, rooms, and users, and a `receive_message(user, message)` function, how would...
The entire interview process took about two months, and unfortunately, I was rejected. The main feedback from HR was that I didn't do well with the Hiring Manager (HM). I had tried to prepare by researching the HM and preparing topics in advance, but the feedb...
I applied online to Kayak for a PM role. I have 5 years of PM experience in insurance tech, focusing on B2B SaaS. I use Kayak often and applied when I saw the opening, despite not having 2C PM experience. The HR person was very nice, replying to emails promptl...
I had a phone screen in late March. The questions were: 1. Merge 2 sorted lists 2. Merge k sorted iterators 3. Now all lists are iterators, how do you make your program lazy evaluate/ streaming?
Here's my interview experience for a Data Engineer position at Squarespace. **Phone Screen:** * I was asked a basic Depth-First Search (DFS) question: Given a graph, determine if there is a path from point A to point B. **Onsite (5.5 hours, 5 sessions):** * **...
