only through email to arrange and follow up, not very clear procedure, and you may receive many emails from many people and some maybe system emails, I guess it's a small company, not well arranged for this
Entretien facile
Candidature
J'ai postulé via un recruteur. J'ai passé un entretien chez Whatnot en sept. 2022
Entretien
Heard about the role through a recruiter. The recruiter was pleasant, and after a couple of weeks, I received a request to apply formally for the role. Another few days and the first round was scheduled. I felt good vibes from the first round, and the second round was scheduled. The second round was a relatively easy algorithm/live coding challenge. I liked that guy as well.
For the third round, it was a whiteboard/systems design challenge, which I felt confident in. Then a product design interview immediately afterwards. The product design interview was performed by a junior engineer whose questions weren't clear. After a few days, the feedback was that I had 1 minor flaw in my system design (which, if he'd asked, I would have explained the difference between an iterator and an array in the selected database) and that the product interview didn't contain enough new ideas.
It seems like a junior engineer with 3 years of experience isn't the best judge of the skillset of 10+ years of experience. It's unfortunate to have spent so much time interviewing only to be assessed by someone who doesn't have the skills to evaluate experience. I usually have an attitude of wanting to learn something from the interviewers. This turns out to have just been a waste of time.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Design an API to handle 1,000,000 push notifications.
Very clear interview process and a great recruiting team and a cool company.
However, the work isn't special but the interviewers have a high standard for some reason -- any basic tenured dev can do the work lol apparently looking for "cream of the crop"
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Basic Software design question -> explain building a web api and then some follow-ups
Coding interview: merge two arrays and sort them based on their squared value: [1,3,7] and [4,10,11] -> simple solution with two pointers
remove duplicates in a string
Some behavioral questions
After going through several recruitment stages, including a home task challenge, the feedback received was vague and unhelpful. As usual, there was no transparency or clear explanation regarding the reasons behind rejecting the application.