I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Hopper in Jul 2018
Interview
Started with a straight forward hackerrank challenge question that just about anybody could breeze by in 10 minutes - let alone the 30+ minutes that was given.
Next interview was a much harder code challenge with a developer, they scheduled it 3 weeks after the hackerrank challenge, at that point I recognized I was probably wasting my time but I decided run with it in case they surprised me and more experience is good to have on these challenges anyway.
They did not surprise me, the interviewer seemed so disinterested in the interview process it felt like he would rather watch paint dry. I definitely got the feeling from his groans and sighs he did not want to be there and he felt I was a waste of his time from the start.
Full day of remote interviews, 4-5 sessions each with data structures programming. One behavioral round with hiring manager towards the end. Process started with a technical screen consisting of an online programming assessment.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What would your former manager/colleagues say about you.
The company seemed really pretentious with them trying so hard to emulate Amazon.
Got rejected after a screening round which was an LLD round. Who screens on the basis of LLD though? The interviewer was not engaged throughout the process and was doing some of his own work. I had to say his name multiple times to bring him back to the conversation.
External recruiter reached out, and afterwards I chatted with a technical recruiter from Hopper. The written communication has been great, polite and timely. The initial chat was going fine until we started talking about the rest of the interview process. The recruiter explained to me that the next step was leetcode style and they used to give 2 days for the challenge to be completed but the women engineers complained that it was too short so they decided to make it a week. I got offended by this specification but still finished the interview as if I wasn’t. Did not continue the process afterwards.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Which technologies I’ve worked with and my education background
