Acudí a una entrevista en Adaptive Biotechnologies
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Envié una solicitud electrónica. El proceso duró 2 meses. Acudí a una entrevista en Adaptive Biotechnologies en may 2016
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Applied online for Software Engineer (Bioinformatics Pipeline), received an interview offer within days. Received the interview offer via phone call and was told they'd like to skip over the initial phone screen and schedule a technical one as soon as possible. Technical interview was with one of their software directors. Was apparent within first 10 minutes of call that I wasn't qualified for position. They were looking for someone with experience in parallel / distributed computing which I did not have but continued with interview anyway. Was asked to write code in a google doc and was given around 30 minutes to do so. Completely botched the technical interview but the interviewer was courteous, continued with interview anyway, and answered my questions about the company and position.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Write a function in a language of your choice to generate all possible permutations of the characters in a given string.
Adaptive Biotechnologies' interview process typically involves a phone screening, multiple rounds of virtual and/or onsite interviews with various team members, and potentially a technical assessment or project-based assignment which require a lot of technical skills to finish.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Tell me about your background and experience in biotech.
Envié una solicitud electrónica. El proceso duró 1 semana. Acudí a una entrevista en Adaptive Biotechnologies en jun 2020
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First they gave me a take-home assignment. It had an algorithm problem, and OOP problem, a SQL problem, and a JavaScript problem. I moved on to the next round and talked to the recruiter which was non-technical and pretty simple, asking about availability and things like that. Then I had a technical phone screen. He asked to find which sets of 2 numbers in an array add up to 7. I solved it in n^2 complexity but he wanted it to be in n complexity. I couldn't figure it out so the interview ended earlier than expected and I wasn't invited to the virtual on-site.
Solicité el puesto a través de un captador. El proceso duró 1 día. Acudí a una entrevista en Adaptive Biotechnologies (Seattle, WA) en abr 2019
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You get hackerrank home assignment for 2 days. Inside, there is your very typical scholar do-you-know-your-trees assignment which has 4 sections and is pretty large. There are 4 junit tests and treenode java class for you.
There is also a message that coding style and class reuse will be evaluated and it is equal in weight to passing all 4 tests.
I knew already the assignments of this sort should be skipped since they rely on class design taste of reviewer. At this point I should have contacted recruiter and tell him I am to going to pass. However, I have never implemented Iterable interface so I decided to practice.
Coding entire assignment took several hours. It is not professional on company's behalf to give so long assignments for pre-screen. Pre-screens so large are only seen in fintech industry. They are nowhere near fintech.
After 4 test cases passed I submitted assignment; next morning got a reject from noreply@ address. No explanations, at all.
I was not happy with code quality of original treenode class, by the way.