I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at ThousandEyes (Londres, Inglaterra) in Jul 2019
Interview
First part was a video call with a director of engineering to discuss the role, my background, and provide an overview of the company.
Next step was a take-home task -- a simplified version of the product I'd potentially be working on. Judging by some other Glassdoor reviews, some candidates have responded poorly to this exercise. I take their point that it represents a significant time investment and it's probably true that this particular exercise approached the upper bound on what's reasonable to expect from a candidate. But I personally found it refreshing to be able to demonstrate my skills outside of the stresses of the tech interview loop.
Finally there was a day of on-site interviews - three of them technical, plus a final interview with a directory of engineering. The on-site included lunch with my potential colleagues, which was a nice touch. It seemed to me that the company had put some thought into creating a welcoming experience for candidates, and everyone I met everyone seemed genuine and genuinely friendly.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Systems design, review of take-home task, data structures.
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)
