San Francisco Bay AreaApr 15, 2020Full JourneyBehavioral4/10 difficulty
The interview process for the Quality Engineer role at Lam Research spanned over four months. After receiving an invitation on January 10th, the process concluded with an offer on May 13th. The first interview was a phone screen, and after a significant delay...
I interviewed for a Data Engineer position. Here's my experience: **Phone Screen:** * Python: * Given a string, find the number of occurrences of a given character. * Replace all None values in a list with the preceding number. * Find the different words betwe...
059
San Francisco Bay Area
Feb 15, 2020
Full Journey
Multiple Types
7/10 difficulty
I interviewed for a Data Engineer position. Here's my experience: **Round 1: HR Interview (2019/12)** This round involved background introduction and quick-fire questions on SQL knowledge. These are commonly asked questions in interviews. **Round 2: Phone Scre...
072
New York, NY, US
Jan 30, 2020
Full Journey
Multiple Types
4/10 difficulty
My interview experience for a Data Scientist Intern position at American Express involved several rounds: **Round 1: Recruiter Screen** This was a 5-minute phone call with an interviewer to confirm my availability for the OA and ask basic questions like expect...
086
New York, NY, US
Dec 15, 2019
Phone Screen
Multiple Types
4/10 difficulty
The interview started with a 5-10 minute introduction and questions about why I was applying for this position. Following that, I was given a coding problem: I had two datasets. The first was a list of exchange rates (e.g., USD to JPY, JPY to CNY). The second...
00
New York, NY, US
Dec 4, 2019
Phone Screen
Coding
6/10 difficulty
The interview lasted 1 hour and was conducted via Zoom with the camera on. After a 5-minute introduction from the interviewer, I was asked to solve a coding problem. The problem was to generate all possible valid English word combinations from a given input of...
00
San Francisco Bay Area
Nov 7, 2019
Recruiter Screen
Multiple Types
3/10 difficulty
I received a referral from a Google HR representative on LinkedIn. I quickly updated my resume and sent it in, which led to a phone screen. I initially thought I would join a meeting using a provided link, but the HR representative called me directly. First, I...
096
New York, NY, US
Aug 15, 2019
Online Assessment
Coding
6/10 difficulty
The task was to design a conference room meeting scheduler. The function input consists of the start and end times of the meeting, represented as two long-type Unix timestamps. When someone schedules a meeting, this function is called. There are a total of 8 m...
092
New York, NY, US
May 15, 2019
Full Journey
Multiple Types
7/10 difficulty
I was contacted by several recruiters due to the company actively hiring. The role seemed promising with good pay, despite being a startup. **Technical Phone Screen:** This round was conducted via CoderPad and Zoom. My Zoom malfunctioned, so it became a phone...
01
New York, NY, US
May 15, 2019
Phone Screen
Coding
5/10 difficulty
The interviewer, a young male engineer, asked a coding question. The problem was to find the exchange rate between any two currencies given a set of direct exchange rates between different currencies. I believe there's a similar problem on LeetCode 399