I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Indeed (Austin, TX)
Interview
Phone Screen then onsite, the onsite interview goes from 9 am to 5 pm, whiteboard questions are pretty basic (no hard code algorithm question, just know your basic DS), design question normal for industry, programming exercise is pretty long but again is not hard.
The interviewers are very nice and they try to give you hints if you get stuck, they come in pairs so you will ended up meeting about 12-13 people by the end of the day.
Advise:
- Ask if you can bring your own laptop for the programming exercise if not you will end up using some crappy laptop and you will loose precious time.
- Make sure you get a good night sleep. It is a long long day.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Indeed (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2016
Interview
I uploaded my resume on Indeed.com but didn't apply any job of Indeed. An Indeed recruiter sent email to me asking if I interested in software engineer positions at Indeed. I replied yes.
I got phone interview with the recruiter twice in two weeks. There were openings of senior software engineer position in Seattle office.
Then I have a technical interview with a engineer online over HackerRank. The question isn't hard at all. I finish the first quickly. But made a small mistake with follow up.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Reverse an URL string while keep special characters, such as &, non-tackled.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Indeed (Austin, TX) in Mar 2016
Interview
Interview process was very straightforward - within a week I got a talk with recruiter, screening interview, talk with head of department and scheduled onsite interview. So in general interview process is very fast.
Interview itself was relatively difficult - 9AM - 5PM with multiple team members. Well, that's usual approach but in this case most of tasks were on very high level. I understand, Indeed looks for good professionals, but that is a high pressure. But what I liked most of those questions were rather practical.
Most inconvenient part - their interview team is located in Austin, TX, which is 2 hours difference with West Coast. And you can spend a lot of time in trip...
In general interview was interesting, all people were nice, except last thing - see below:
BE AWARE: they claim to reimburse you with all reasonable expenses but if decision is negative, then they add you to black list and do not respond. I've lost about $250 in direct expenses. That's a shame.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
DP questions, data structures with added behavior, system design for distributed environment.
Programming question which you can do on your own laptop. That's good because you do not have to accommodate to another system / IDE, etc. It uses a lot of mapping between entries, indices building. Very reasonable task.