I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Qualtrics (Seattle, WA) in Sept 2016
Interview
After applying online the recruiter dropped an email asking for 15 mins of phone talk. After the call she set up a phone screen with an engineer for 45mins. I cleared the screen and went for an onsite loop. very positive experience
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Check if characters of a given string can be rearranged to form a palindrome
2. Pascal triangle
3. String matching where one string contains wildcard characters
4. Given an array of citations (each citation is a non-negative integer) of a researcher, write a function to compute the researcher’s h-index
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Qualtrics
Interview
The whole process was remote. I was referred by a friend who works here.
1. Chat with recruiter
2. Chat with hiring manager (behavioral questions)
3. Coding Question on hacker rank
4. System Design question - interviewer didn't turn on camera, said very little throughout the process
The recruiter told me that they had been slow in making a decision, that they will get back to me. They never got back to me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time that you made a mistake. How did you handle it?
Started with a Recruiter screen - overview about company
ML Knowledge - basics of LLMs and your relevant projects
LeetCode - two basic easy and med leetcode problems
Takes a long time to hear back after each round - better to reach out after each round to ask about next steps.
First step is recriuter screen. Then 45 min technical with a software engineer, final round is 90 min technical and 30 min behavioral. They will have you schedule them on a web service called goodtime. Interviewer was very friendly.
