I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Pocket Gems (New York, NY) in May 2017
Interview
Total waste of time. Don't bother applying here. Even though you do everything well, they won't even give you onsite anyway. In total one OA with two coding questions. Then three phone interviews.
One thing is that during my second phone interview, my phone signal was really bad. The interviewer didn't care that much and didn't say more than 10 sentences.
If you need to have some technical interview experiences, this is good. Otherwise, don't expect anything meaningful from this place.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
OA: 1. Parse log file; 2. path finder
Phone interview:
1. find largest k elements in an array
2. implement C standard library function strStr()
3. design a basic calculator. Support + and * operations
4. Given a n x n matrix filled with True and False. Rule is that for each row, from left to right, if an element is True, all elements on the right is True
[F, T, T, T] exists, but no [F, T, F, T]
Find the left-most column with T
I received an email from an HR after participating in an online competition. The first round was an online coding interview with an engineer from their team. I did not go beyond the telephonic round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find the lowest common ancestor in a binary search tree.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Pocket Gems in Mar 2022
Interview
OA with 2 medium problems & a code review, 1-hour 1st round technical interview followed by 3 consecutive 1-hour technical interviews.
The interviewers were all super nice. They were willing to work together towards a solution when I needed some subtle hints. They were very polite, engaged and eager to chat.
Got the offer pretty shortly after my last interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Medium leetcode questions, graphs & hashmaps are your friends.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Pocket Gems in Nov 2021
Interview
I was given a Hackerrank to complete after a few weeks of waiting for a response. Just some common leetcode style questions in hackerranks. I didn't do so well though so received the rejection email a few days later.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Hackerrank questions I don't really remember specifics.
Thank you so much for being transparent with your experience interviewing. We are really looking forward to having you here at Pocket Gems!
Pocket Gems response
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Thank you for sharing your experience with us. We thank you for your time put in with us even if it did not work out in the end. Wishing you all the best!