SingleStore Software Engineer New Grad interview questions
based on 3 ratings - Updated Mar 1, 2021
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Software Engineer New Grad applicants have rated the interview process at SingleStore with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 50% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer New Grad roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at SingleStore overall takes an average of 21 days.
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I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at SingleStore (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2021
Interview
Took about the 4 months for the entire process and was told in the end that I lack experience. First of all it was a new grad role and they should have let me know about it in the beginning, rather then let me interview for about 4 months which was super slow. Took almost a month after every round of interviews. Apparently they only have a single recruiter managing everything. Very bad experience overall. Not worth it
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Question 1
Leetcode,
Take home assignment etc,
Super slow in the interview process
I applied online. I interviewed at SingleStore in Jan 2021
Interview
1st round (Dec 3rd week 2020) - add functionality to a database.
2nd & 3rd round (Jan 1st week 2021) - Technical Interviews DS/Alogos.
After the 2nd/3rd round the recruiter completely ghosted without any response for weeks, and in interviews, I waited for almost 20 mins but no one showed up. Very unprofessional.
Suggestion to recruiter: Please at least reply to the candidates about the decision. It takes a lot of time and effort to prepare and give these interviews.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at SingleStore (San Francisco, CA) in Oct 2019
Interview
I was contacted with a request for a phone screen a few months after I initially applied online. The format of the interview was thoroughly detailed -- diving into a C codebase and making changes -- so I was able to brush up on my C and prepare accordingly. I learned I passed very shortly after the interview concluded and scheduled two further phone interviews.
The format of the next two interviews was industry standard technical LeetCode/HackerRank questions (med-hard). In one of the interviews, I solved the problem given in 30 min and was told to seek the optimal space complexity solution, which was tricky. The interviewer had a laissez-faire attitude and wasn't interactive, which caused some stress. Lacking direction, I may have talked in circles.
The second interviewer was significantly more interactive and conversational; instead of a single large problem, we walked through a series of a problem with escalating complexity of functionality.
I did not pass the second set of phone interviews and make it to the onsite. They did not provide any feedback. I found it strange that they implemented a "diving into a real codebase" interview to test practical software engineering ability and then fell back on the abstract "reverse K-long segments of a linked list"- type questions. Other companies like Stripe focus more consistently on what they are looking for.