I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Alpha Net (San Jose, CA) in Nov 2025
Interview
I recently interviewed with Alphanet after being contacted by a recruiter. The recruiter was very professional and clearly explained the interview process, the team, and the overall expectations. In the next stage, I was informed that an interviewer from India would be conducting the technical round.
I prefer not to disclose the interviewer's name, but I do want to share that the experience during this round was disappointing. The problem presented was fairly common, involving questions about the internal workings of a HashMap and how collisions are handled. However, the interviewer did not allow me to fully express my thoughts. Whenever I attempted to reason through collision handling, explaining why it could not be O(n), for example, he repeatedly cut me off and laughed in a way that implied I lacked knowledge.
Toward the end, he abruptly stated that he needed to join another call and ended the interview without any courtesy or closing remarks. Overall, the interaction felt disrespectful and unprofessional, leaving me with a very negative impression of the process.
I applied online. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Alpha Net (San Francisco, CA) in Apr 2023
Interview
Alphanet is a recruiting company, apparently based in India. Their interview process was extremely unprofessional, and I would not recommend wasting your time with them There were 2 rounds of interviews, but I only did the first one, which was going through a random easy leetcode question (literally just doing it on the leetcode website), while they recorded it. The 2nd would have been talking with the actual company. The interviewer was incredibly unprofessional, basically just starting the recording and walking away for 15 minutes, not answering any questions. And then when he came back, he was basically just reading questions off a list, clearly not understanding what the question actually said and expecting a 1:1 match to whatever list he was reading off of, since he kept repeating the question when I answered it the same way, but phrased slightly differently. Also, despite his very strong accent, he got frustrated when I couldn't understand what he was saying the first time. E.g. he kept saying something like "S"TTP, and when I asked twice if he meant HTTP, he just repeated STTP and then asked if I was stupid.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A random easy leetcode problem that I hadn't completed yet (He just had me scroll down the list until he saw one he liked)