I applied online. I interviewed at Indeed (Austin, TX) in Jul 2017
Interview
A recruiter reached out to me via Indeed Prime to set up an initial phone call. After discussing the opportunity with him, we set up a technical phone interview.
Following the positive feedback from that we set up an onsite. The onsite was longer than what I have seen in other tech companies. It lasted from 9 am to 4:30 pm. There was an hour lunch break in the middle. All interviews had a primary interviewer and a shadow. 4/5 were technical in nature while the last one was a discussion with an engineering director and HR.
Interview itself wasn't very difficult. I would say Leetcode easy/medium should be good enough prep.
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
Phone Interview: How to collect data frequency and retrieve the top k elements with max frequency.
Onsite Interview #2: Given a compound word and a dictionary you have to return the words in the dictionary that add up to form the given compound word. e.g. target word = "leetcode" and dict = ["leet", "let", "code", "cod"]
Only did the 1st round. It was a medium Leetcode question. The interview was only for 30 min. Their compiler threw an unexpected error, which even the interviewers couldn't fix
Terrible scheduling. Difficult company to deal with. Will not contact again. Pay was below industry average for the location. Misleading job description. Benefits below standard. Hope everyone avoids this place
In total, there were five interviews. Three of them were more technical and the other two or more about your background. The technical interviews were pretty standard simple to medium Leetcode questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was asked about how we kept metrics in my previous job. When I told him that this was something we didn’t really do, he continued to harp on this question for the entirety of the interview, as if it was something that would be very difficult for me to learn.