I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Rakuten Advertising in Mar 2016
Interview
I was contacted by the recruiter who found my profile on linkedin. After initial chat, he set up a call with the hiring manager. The call went well. I was asked mostly about stuffs in my resume and also a couple of technical questions on list duplicates and their time complexity. Then I was asked to complete a programming assignment and submit the same within a week. The assignment wasn't difficult but needed some thinking to handle concurrency issues. After I submitted, I didn't hear back from them. I emailed them about 4/5 times but to no avail. Not even a rejection email. This shows how unprofessional their whole process is. Please don't waste somebody's time if you are not bothered to even reply to emails.
Our apologies with regards to your having such a negative time. Recruiting has been a major focus area for us and we have recently expanded our team as well as making major improvements to the process as a whole. We appreciate your taking the time to share your experience!
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I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Rakuten Advertising (Toronto, ON) in Mar 2024
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Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The data structure question about Java, such as the difference between ArrayList and LinkedList.
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Interview
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Interview questions [1]
Question 1
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I applied online. The process took 6 days. I interviewed at Rakuten Advertising (San Mateo, CA) in Aug 2022
Interview
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