Solicité el puesto a través de un captador. El proceso duró 3 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Block (San Francisco, CA) en abr 2019
Entrevista
I have over 10 years of experience. I applied for a Senior engineer role. I was contacted by the recruiter and was told there would be two phone screens.
I had a phone screen which involved two graph traversal based coding problems. I would say medium difficulty. There was no talk about my resume or background. The coding went pretty well
After the phone screen I was called onsite (I had just one phone screen). When I did get called though, they told me they were interviewing for a Software engineer role and not a senior engineer role.
There were 3 technical coding interviews on Mac, on an IDE of your choice. One casual lunch meeting. One resume based interview and one design interview. Then there is a 30 min conversation with the hiring manager.
I felt I had aced the coding rounds with a working solution to all their sub problems. In the resume based round there were two fresh out of college graduates (kids) and I got a feeling they had no clue what I was talking about. They asked pretty much no questions at all. This was a chance for me impress which I lost.
In the design round it was hard to say what happened. They went into detail on one part of the system and we kept talking about that and didn't cover much ground. May be they expected me to take charge instead of letting them control the direction. The conversation with the manager was very informative.
On the third day after the interview I got a canned rejection email which said something like we don't want you but we are sure you have other options. I asked for a feedback and there was none.
Overall I would say the interviewers very nice and supportive. But it's hard to say what exactly are they looking for. You might think you did really well and then may get shocked that they reject you with zero feedback.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
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Compared to FAANG on site interviews, this one was easier. How ever I would not say it was easy.
The coding questions are not copy pasted from leetcode, like some of the other bigger companies do. They are combinations and variations of medium level leet code problems.
I would say if you have solved leetcode problems for companies like linkedin and google, this would be on the easier side.
Inital take home, followed by extension interview, followed by a coding challenge, followed by system design interview.
The whole process took 3 months!
The interviewers are usually really nice and want you to do your best.
The interviewer was nice, and he is friendly and willing to give hint, the question has 2 follow-ups, it was hard to complete in time. The question was not a typical LeetCode
Acudí a una entrevista en Block (San Francisco, CA)
Entrevista
Phone screen and then a full day of interviews. 3 pair programming challenges, a system design review and a prior experience interview. There was also an onsite lunch with a person from the company.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
To design a hotel booking system. Pick any part (backend, frontend, database, api etc) and deepdive into that, explaining the decisions along the way.