I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Hopper (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2022
Interview
Applied through a recruiter. First I had an half hour call with the hiring manager and it went well. He said Hopper has a long sequence of behavioral and technical interviews before they make an offer and such process proved successful. Then I had a technical interview with the hiring manager and a Senior Software Engineer. SSE was basically not supposed to ask any questions but watch it seems. During this, HM asked a few behavioral questions and proceeded to a shared technical challenge on Hackerrank. I thought I did well and I even solved what he called bonus points. TBH it is not easy to get syntax correct while coding on browser and it seems more suitable for Python programmers. Next day I received an email saying they found a slightly better fit for the position.
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Behavioral questions like what was the latest critique I received and how I handled. Have I introduced any new technology and how I convinced the team.
Technical coding question was about a smart parking garage with two functions, enter and exit, and how it keeps track of available spaces.
6 interviews with different people, They ask you about programming languages, architecture, and your experience in preview jobs. You have interviews with developers, Product owners, managers, technical leaders, and other positions
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Q: How did you resolve the hackerRanck problem and why?
Ok initial interview with recruiter. seemed friendly enough. engineering manager was not very friendly, didn't ask a lot about background more so wanted to jump to technical question. question was on recursively finding all possible paths from two places given multiple locations.
* Phone screen. I enjoyed talking to the recruiter very much. They clearly elaborated on the open position and shared many details about the teams and the company. Later on, that recruiter did a great job keeping me posted. * Hiring manager round + coding. Mainly we talked about my past experience, achievements, and challenging tasks I worked on. There was a medium LC problem at the end of the round (it was about calculating the stock price) * Another coding interview. I was given an LC-medium problem that I had to solve in 45 minutes. The problem was quite straightforward, but the follow-up questions were quite hard. * System design stage. I was asked to design a part of the Hopper functionality. Unfortunately, I couldn't narrow down the limitations and constraints, so I performed poorly during this stage. However, overall I enjoyed talking to different people at Hopper. Communication was nice and thorough. At the end of the interview process, I had a quick call with the Sr. Engineering Manager, where they provided quite detailed feedback regarding my interview performance and pointed out to the areas requiring improvement.
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Question 1
A lot of behavioral questions. LC medium and a system design where I had to design a part of their application.
