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      Merchant Analyst Interview

      20 Feb 2013
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Block in Sept 2012

      Interview

      Square is Square, expect the hiring process to take a while and have a few rounds. It helps if you're recruiting at other companies to put some soft pressure on them to move forward. But if you put too much pressure, as I suspect I did, they'll pass. The interview process itself was legit and thorough. No brain teaser questions were asked, mostly skills and knowledge based. I claimed to be fairly proficient with PSQL, they made me solve a couple of problems on the spot to make sure I wasn't bs'ing. Nothing too crazy, but you should know about joins, left joins, grouping, ordering as well as a little bit of theory on how the relational database systems work. I met with 10 different people, including the VP of product, so they do take their hiring seriously and each of them asked thoughtful, practical questions. As a caveat, people did seem sort of worn down and beat up by the work environment at Square so you should know that you're probably signing up for super crazy work hours.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Who has been your mentor in data analytics and why?
      1 Answer
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