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      Software Engineer Interview

      18 Mar 2015
      Anonymous interview candidate
      San Francisco, CA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Block (San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2015

      Interview

      I was first sent a HackerRank challenge (one hour timed); all it wanted was to simulate a game (rules were explained) by reading inputs and determining who won, who lost, or if there was a tie. Passed 4/6 test cases. The next two interviews were pair programming on coderpad and Skype. Both were one hour long, and the interviewers were interested in not just solving the problem, but in having you talk the whole time. I have the feeling they gave major bonus points for using object-oriented principles in your solution (they always started typing when I used inner classes), and they let you choose your language. I was only asked about run-time once. The final interview was on-site in San Francisco, they covered all transportation/food costs. I came in with a group of six or seven other potential interns, and the first hour or two was a tour, history of Square, and lunch. Then they led us to a set of open desks where we had our last two technical interviews back-to-back (each one hour long -- I spaced out on the last one, that disqualified me). After that we had coffee, a sit-down chat with some engineers, and then a send-off with swag. Overall, it's been my favorite interviewing experience (no whiteboards at all, just coding and chatting).

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Imagine you have an x-y grid of floats. Define a method to drop a parameter block of a certain height and length (also floats) beginning at any x coordinate. Subsequent blocks dropped will fall on top of any previous blocks, 'stacking' their height. Define another method to return the height at any requested x location. There was a third method, but I didn't have time to do it.
      1 Answer
      9

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