I applied online. I interviewed at Block (San Francisco, CA) in Jun 2018
Interview
I interviewed for a software engineering position. Recruiter call went well and they set me up for the first round on coderpad. That went well, interviewer was very nice and the interview went well. I set up the second round pretty soon and this was a really bad experience. The interviewer was curt and while I was implementing my solution, cut me off midway and just told me that I will follow up with the recruiter. I understand if someone is doing terribly or plain failing, they would do that, but I had a working solution . Did not get a chance to optimize my solution or ask any questions. I think Square needs to train its engineers to be polite and pretend to be engaged in the process. That's the least they can do.
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Interview questions [1]
Question 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.
