I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Docusign (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2020
Interview
- 1 Phone Interview - Went over a coding question
- 4 Onsite (Zoom) interviews - 3 coding and 1 Design + Coding
All the coding rounds were good and some of the interviewers asked a second question as we wrapped up the first one sooner. And the interviewers who had to ask a second question didn't seem prepared for it.
I have to say that I did not enjoy the design round with the Engineering Director for the following reasons:
- The constraints imposed seemed unnecessary and artificial (atypical to how you would design such systems) especially considering the interview being remote and design conversations gets tricky.
- Was expected to produce code. This is atypical considering the level I am being interviewed for and all the other 3 interviews were just focused on coding.
- Almost no questions about my experience.
- The conversation was just one way. I interview a lot of candidates myself, and I do expect the candidates to lead design conversations, however, I would interrupt the conversation if I felt that its going the wrong way or if the candidate wasn't covering the topics I would want or if I would want to get into the details of a topic. None of that happened here. And this should be the round I didn't do well.
Considering the interviews being team specific, I would have declined the offer had I received one.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Expect to write a lot of code throughout
- All the interviewers asked for different test cases to cover
We are very sorry to hear of your experience. If you are open to it, our VP of Recruiting, Nic Jagoe, would be interested in hearing more. She can be reached at Nic.Jagoe@docusign.com.
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I applied online. I interviewed at Docusign (San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2025
Interview
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Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Question about string manipulation. Cannot disclose due to NDA. Don't bother applying here.
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Interview
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Interview questions [1]
Question 1
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Interview
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Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a class and method, describe the in detail its intended function. Write unit tests and full code coverage for it.
