Good Interview Process. Tests for real world skills, rather than LC style questions.
I realized I didn't do well in one of the rounds. Recruiter Ghosted. Makes me think, if they can walk back on the offer too.
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Question 1
Phone Screen: Coding and High level system design.
Hiring Manager Screen Behavioural Questions.
System Design
Reverse System Design
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Coinbase (New York, NY)
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Good process. It was fairly efficient and the recruiter asked good questions that seemed relevant to the work I would be doing. I did not get very far in the loops, but would accept another interview request if offered. so it was ultimately a good experience.
The recruiting process at Coinbase was very efficient. The interviews were scheduled quickly and the recruiter put a lot of dedication finding a team and working on a compelling offer.
There were a few unusual steps in the process, such as an online culture assessment and a CCAT26 test.
I didn't need to know much about crypto, but they care a lot about culture and mission alignment.
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Question 1
Coding assignment on CodeSignal: define a data structure to handle a time based stream of data. This was not a LeetCode type of question. It was a more practical problem closer to the type of code you would write in real life.
System Design: A low latency large scale financial system - you don't need to know anything about crypto and you can abstract away a lot of the more domain specific financial services.
The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Coinbase (Bengaluru) in Jan 2025
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Code signal online test with 4 different questions. Test time is 95 minutes, I could only solve two and time got over. Each test has mote than 10 to 15 test cases. all of them has to be passed before moving to the next test
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Code signal test, 4 test were given, one the managing the data structure for file system with sizes
1. List the files with file name and size
2. Sort the files by size and if size is same sort by name
