Recruiter called and described about the organization and about the opportunity and job description then he scheduled for the next round, next round was the on line coding interview by the project manager, he asked about my current project and one coding challenge.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Paint fill new color algorithm. Its based on Matrix BFS Algorith, similar to finding islands in give matrix map.
I applied online. I interviewed at Qualtrics (Seattle, WA) in Sep 2018
Interview
Telephonic problem solving . I gave complete running code in Hacker rank . Interviewer him self took time to understand solution yawning with during telephonic interview . I gave first logic and then ask shall I proceed with this and write and he said yes . My 3 friends who are working in microsoft and facebook told me not to give interview as they have same experience . Now I will also suggest not to give interview here . Just waste of time .
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Qualtrics (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2017
Interview
Phone interview with Seattle office. The manager called over phone and asked about my experience. Initially the interviewer said the interview will be for 45min and ended up spending more than 20 min on my experience. After that he switched to coding with initial discussion about differences between BST and HashTables. Later with actual interview question he made me hurry up in proposing a solution and coding because he was going to be kicked out of the conference/private room and he still have to write feedback.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given 2 list of numbers and an integer k return the k smallest pair of integers from the 2 list. After proposing some initial brute force solutions the problem was simplified it to be a 2 sorted lists.