I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Apollo.io in June 2021
Interview
HR contacted me through the mail(not sure how they got my email id). HR scheduled the intro call. She didn't show up that day. She again scheduled a call and had a brief discussion about the role. A technical interview was scheduled.
During the technical interview, I was given a link and there was a question posted. The interviewer asked to read it solve it. No explanation. It was written in a vague description which made no sense. Upon asking for clarification interviewer was rude. One could make out the interviewer was not much interested to hire and was there just to have fun.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
DS question on Binary Seach written in a vague description. Interviewee picked up a binary search question from leetcode and tried to customize it using his by adding Apollo.io which made no sense at all.
There were total of four rounds
- first round consist of easy to medium leetcode question
- second round consist of React machine coding round
- third round consist of debugging round with react and redux
- fourth round consist of behaviour round
Initial screening through coderbyte. there were 3 question. two of them were problem solving & one from react. need to solve with in 50 min. all 3 questions. In order to move
to next round
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Screening through coderbyte. there were 3 questions
I applied online. I interviewed at Apollo.io (San Francisco, CA)
Interview
The interview process was quite convoluted. It involved multiple rounds that seemed disorganized and redundant. First, I had a screening call with HR, which was followed by a technical assessment. The technical questions focused on coding challenges and system design, but after completing that round, I was unexpectedly asked to repeat some similar tasks in the second technical round. Moreover, I was introduced to an entirely different interviewer who seemed unaware of my previous discussions. There was also a lengthy discussion on data crawling methods, especially LinkedIn crawling, which felt out of scope for the role I applied for, and raised some legal and ethical questions. The entire process took several weeks with long gaps between communications, which made it hard to follow and frustrating.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Can you explain how you would set up a LinkedIn crawling system to collect large amounts of user data efficiently?