The process took 2 days. I interviewed at ThousandEyes (San Francisco, CA) in Sep 2018
Interview
Got contacted by a recruiter. Scheduled a phone interview. Phone interview was some general work experience questions followed by a 5 minute programming exercise - check if 2 strings are anagrams of each other. Wrote the program and ran all the test cases and everything passed and the interviewer literally said "Yes, this is the most optimal way to solve the problem, recruiter will call you to schedule an onsite".
Then just silence. No response from recruiter - and I totally forgot that I interviewed here.
After almost a month I thought of checking what happened (just out of curiosity). Funnily enough, I got a response from the recruiter :-)
The response was that my solution for the anagram was bettered by other candidates who they are proceeding with. I can only hope they don't waste the other candidates time with their sub par recruiter.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
General discussion about work - check if 2 strings are anagrams of each other
I found the question fair but challenging. While I understood the fundamentals, my lack of experience with certain advanced techniques kept me from fully passing. I'll focus on refining these areas to improve my performance in the future. Thank you for the opportunity.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at ThousandEyes in Jun 2022
Interview
Initial Leetcode - style Interview followed by on site
On site consisted of another coding round, systems design, and behavioral. I was not in the right headspace and did poorly on the first coding round. They allowed me to schedule one more coding round to "make up" for my first failing (despite passing through the initial coding round). The "make up" round was an extremely vague question with no example inputs/outputs and despite trying to communicate with the interviewer on the question, he told me another requirement of the problem which completely changed how I would have designed the solution 5 minutes before the end of the interview.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Due to the NDA, I will keep it vague.
Leetcode Hard graph problem (Djikstra's but with some tweaks)
A fairly regular software engineer interview process. The first call was with the recruiter. After that, there was a technical round with one of the developers. The response time was also quick.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement a new data structure which can do following
set(key, value)
get(key)
last()
delete(key)
