I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Applied Intuition in Jan 2021
Interview
- 1 hour virtual interview (1 Leetcode Medium)
- Onsite, 4 hour virtual interview with 4 different engineers, each with a different Leetcode Medium problem
- Culture fit interviews (I did not pass the onsite, so I did not reach this stage)
In terms of the technical bar, I did not pass it, despite having working, correct, and optimal answers to 3/4 of the questions. I struggled on 1/4. Given the new grads they've interviewed before, they expect quick arrival to the solution and quick responses to questions about recursive runtimes. Although the questions were all standard Medium-level difficulty, I would rank the interview as difficult due the high bar they set for how quickly/cleanly they should be solved.
In terms of culture fit, the feedback showed that they highly value passion for the company and engagement with the individual interviewers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q. Leetcode Medium level questions, but do them well without too much stumbling
Recruiter screen, technical phone interview, and technical on-site interviews. Technical interviews were a mix of algorithmic and design questions, similar to Google.
Interviewers were pleasant to talk with, and recruiter was great. Unfortunately, didn't move on.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Algorithmic and design interview questions, unfortunately, can't say more
I applied online. I interviewed at Applied Intuition (Tokyo) in Dec 2020
Interview
Started off by getting a presentation of the company and the background of the interviewer. After that I was asked to present myself. I did than and then we went on diving a little deeper in my experience.
At a certain point the interviewer inform me that we are late for the coding part and that we have only 15 minutes, so he wants to move on to that part. That's where things went south.
I got presented with a fairly easy problem. I took some time to talk about the solution and I got rushed to write the code. I tried explaining why I did something while writing I was basically ignored by the interviewer, and halfway through my implementation the interviewer told me that I should finish it in a couple minutes, but that he understood the approach and it was actually fine for him.
I tried finish it but the interviewer just cut me telling me "Well, I have to go now, if you want to finish the implementation by yourself it's ok, but you don't need to." and closed the communication after we said our farewells .
I completed the algorithm and tested it out because I like to see stuff completed.
One day later I got a call with the recruiter that told me that the interviewer reported that my software engineering skills were not good enough and that my code was not really maintainable or debuggable without providing any additional information. I didn't complain because I know how this stuff goes and basically I wouldn't get extra info out of it, but I think this was a very unprofessional way of handling the interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Pretty easy 2D matrix leetcode-like question. (I don't think I can say more than this)