One of the rare occasions I terminated the interview process; it was that BAD!
Passed the first few rounds (recruiter interview, Karat online assessments), was ready to go to onsite. Then started to have bad feelings.
First, the onsite is long, 7hour long! Longer than even FAANG companies.
Second, 1 of the onsite interviews is a 105-minute coding round on HackerRank which says "After 10 mins, interviewer goes on mute and you’ll have 90 mins to solve on your own." This could just be an online assessment, why do you want to waste 2h of my workday just to have another person watching over my shoulder!
Third, trying to communicate and schedule with the recruiter was a FRUSTRATING experience. The recruiter was a contractor, very unresponsive (think days without response), replied in short sentences without much value. I had to push multiple times to get the information I want.
For a company that praises itself as helping people to find jobs, it provides a very bad experience for its own candidates. Being too frustrated, I terminated the interview loop!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
LC easy, simple string and hash operations, nothing to write home about.
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I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Indeed (Minneapolis, MN) in May 2022
Interview
Quick phone screen, which was good and the Technical Recruiter was very friendly and open.
But the technical interview was awful. Off-shored through Karat, got an interviewer with a thick accent who was little to no help. Karat's web IDE was also awful and gave minimal indications if what you were trying to do would build or not until you hit the Build button. Just terrible. I got a full solution to the first problem and then had explained my solution to the second problem but ran out of time before I could implement it fully. Both questions were LeetCode medium/hard and have no actual connection to day-to-day software engineering.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
10 minutes of trivia questions regarding software engineering concepts, then 45 minutes to finish 2 LeetCode Medium/Hard problems.
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Remote online interview with Karat. It started with an elevator pitch, then picked between categories of task-related and trivia questions, and ended with a coding question. It took about an hour to complete.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the difference between Composition and Inheritance? (OOP)
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