I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Mixpanel in Jun 2021
Interview
I was given a triple byte exam (40 questions ~2min each) and like the other reviewer for front end, half the concepts didn’t apply. It was pretty much concepts relating to general software engineering not front end. Also some networking types of questions. At the end it shows you where your strengths were and where you suck lol
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Accurate statement regarding a code snippet using a DAG.
Started with a phone screen with a recruiter to chat about the company, the role itself to see if it was something I was interested in, and my previous experience. It was followed by an online screening quiz composed of 42 multiple choice questions, and each question has a time limit.
Obviously it's the company's choice to use this quiz, but it seems to be a quiz to see if you're a full stack person, not to see if you're fit to be a front end person. There seems to be a mismatch of what the job description requires and what they actually are testing you on.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Out of the 42 multiple choice questions, I could probably count on one hand the ones that I felt were relevant to me as a front end engineer. There were many questions in C and Java on topics I haven't thought about since college, and additionally there were questions in Ruby and Python that I just couldn't answer because I don't know those languages. Other questions involved scenarios that on a job, I would ask either my dev ops person or a back end person.
