I applied online. I interviewed at Carbon Five (Chattanooga, TN) in Oct 2021
Interview
I got to the second interview. The interviewers were very nice, and the company seems awesome, but the second interview did involve live coding. I knew to expect that, but it didn't occur to me to practice live-coding beforehand. I was so focused on stuff like Big O notation that I didn't consider how I would react to coding with someone watching. So the first time I ever live-coded was this interview.
Yeah, don't do that.
The coding problem was really easy, but I panicked and made a bunch of dumb mistakes. It was like half of my frontal lobe shut down the moment I opened my IDE. They were super nice about it, but I fully understand why I didn't get an offer.
New devs, learn from the incredibly stupid thing that I did, and do not let the first time you live-code be a job interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Solve a few problems for scoring a bowling game - simple stuff like accepting a string, reading it as hex, and then adding up scores and displaying a total in decimal.
I applied online. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at Carbon Five (Pleasanton, CA) in Sep 2021
Interview
1) Introduction about the company and about my work experience.
2) Technical Screening which was scheduled for 1 hour but went over by 20-25 mins as we went into the mentoring session, which was useful and showed even if the candidate does not qualify, they are sill interested for everyone to excel in the career. I was not selected but still enjoyed this session.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Carbon Five (New York, NY) in Aug 2021
Interview
-Met with the hiring manager for a call.
-Vitual tech screen with a senior engineer.
-All day virtual onsite, met with various members of the team for standard technical and cultural interviews
Overall, process was fine, but at the end, I didn't hear back from them for a week. When I finally did, they invited me to a zoom call, which lasted about 2 minutes, and in which they told me they didn't think it was a good fit, and nothing else. What a waste of my time, an email would have sufficed.