I applied online. The process took 8 weeks. I interviewed at Headspace in Nov 2021
Interview
Process was fully remote and online. Biggest con was that it was pretty slow, and I received my offer almost 7 weeks after I first interacted with the recruiter. And almost 2 weeks after my final interview.
First round was very standard. 10 minutes of background followed by 30-40 minutes on a relatively easy coding problem.
Final round was 4 parts. 30m discussion with PM, 30m discussion with engineering manager, 1 hour React coding interview, 1 hour UI architecture interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an input sentence (str) and number (n) return an array with the n most frequent words in the sentence (ignore case, punctuation, and filler words).
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Headspace in Feb 2022
Interview
After doing my final round interview, they told me I was the frontrunner for the position. They then kept me waiting for almost 3 weeks. They constantly promised they'd have a decision by day X and then they'd push it back or ignore my emails asking for updates, until they finally called to reject me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
first round: standard "sort a list" style question
final round: start writing a calculator's functionality
I first chatted with an in-house recruiter on the phone. This was followed by a 1 hour video interview with a code-along. The interviewer was not very personable and overall wasn't too happy with the experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write an algorithm that produces all permutations of a set of letters.