I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Simplee (Mountain View, CA) in Mar 2018
Interview
Was contacted through an external recruiter who scheduled 15-30 minutes with a hiring manager. I had did a bit of reading on the company but when the call came it started with the hiring manager introducing himself and telling me a brief description of simple. After about 3 minutes he essentially said “i’m going to send you a 1 hr coding problem that you can do anytime. “ I asked if I could ask any questions about simplee and he responded with , you can talk to the recruiter to find out anything. I found this super disrespectful and was immediately put off. I then asked him if I can do it on the weekend as I was very busy with work that week and he responded with well we are all busy but get it done asap. I could immediately tell this was a person I did not want to ever work with so I decided not to proceed after that.
Normal, took up to three weeks to get an offer, people were nice and welcoming, interviews were as scheduled and always on time. Overall good experience with the company at that time
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Simplee
Interview
HR call of about 20 minutes.
They told me i'd be interviewed about SQL queries and some programming questions on Codility.
The interviewers were nice but they barely asked me anything about my experienced, like they only cared about the resume and that's it, which was kind of annoying.
Additionally, no SQL questions were asked, and since i studies this topic especially for this interview i was disappointed.
Not a good interview experience overall.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a string with names of photos (including place and dateTime taken), you need to rename all of them according to a few conditions while keeping the original order - basically order them according to the dateTime by each place.
Phone call with the recruiter talked about the position and set expectation, coding challenge with sr. software engineer. I had a great experience to interview with them, the process moved very quick.
