I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Qualtrics (Seattle, WA)
Interview
Recruiter reached out to me to start the process. There was one technical phone interview (standard 5-10 min intros, 30 min technical question, 5-10 min ask questions) and then the onsite afterward. The onsite was 3 technical interviews that were an hour long each. In 2 of them, it's a 1 on 1 interview and in 1 of them it's a 2 on 1 interview. After interviews, they served us lunch and gave a 30 minute demo of the product. If you passed onsites, there was a hiring manager interview where they told me that it would be mostly behavioral with a little coding. This was a lie. The whole interview was coding excluding the intros and asking questions at the end parts. The question was difficult as well, so I was kinda caught off guard.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement an iterator for a binary tree using any traversal, find all combinations of values in an array that sum to a given target value, find the smallest multiple of a number that only contains 0s 1s and 2s, determine if a number is a power of 2 iteratively and recursively, given (x,y) on pascal's triangle find the number belong to that coordinate, convert a binary tree to a doubly linked list, implement getAt(int index) and insertAt(int index, char value) for an unrolled linked list.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Qualtrics
Interview
The whole process was remote. I was referred by a friend who works here.
1. Chat with recruiter
2. Chat with hiring manager (behavioral questions)
3. Coding Question on hacker rank
4. System Design question - interviewer didn't turn on camera, said very little throughout the process
The recruiter told me that they had been slow in making a decision, that they will get back to me. They never got back to me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time that you made a mistake. How did you handle it?
Started with a Recruiter screen - overview about company
ML Knowledge - basics of LLMs and your relevant projects
LeetCode - two basic easy and med leetcode problems
Takes a long time to hear back after each round - better to reach out after each round to ask about next steps.
First step is recriuter screen. Then 45 min technical with a software engineer, final round is 90 min technical and 30 min behavioral. They will have you schedule them on a web service called goodtime. Interviewer was very friendly.
