I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomreach (Bengaluru) in Dec 2015
Interview
Phone screen, it was though a skype session, someone from their california office called.This is just the first round, I have cleared it has to come for more rounds in person.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. You are given a acronym dictionary where it has expansion say WHO => world health Organisation. Then there is input which has this acronym used, you will have to substitute the acronym for the expansion and that will be your result.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Bloomreach
Interview
I had to write the code in a shared google doc. Who does that anymore? Get an editor guys, it's the 21st century. Adversarial interview from the get go, the assumption is that you are not smart enough. Very little collaborative questioning to understand thought process. The whole time is spent on 1 question.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomreach (Mountain View, CA) in July 2014
Interview
I took two rounds of phone interviews before onsite. One was good the other was so so. Basic coding questions and algorithm/data structure questions. Some are related to big data operation.
There are three rounds of onsite interviews. First interviewer asked four algorithm questions. I need to code two of them. None of them were very difficult, the interviewer was nice and willing to give hints. The second one was a design question about a chat application and several follow up questions on scalability. The third one again was a coding question, the interviewer came in and raised the question and started to work on his laptop. I came up with an idea and he brought up a counter case. I couldn't find a good solution after a while and asked for more hints. Finally I was able to finish the code but felt really bad. We remained silence for most of the time, the interviewer seemed busy with his own work. I would give a negative experience but the other interviews were quite nice. I'm not sure if the third guy was the bar raiser.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Painting a list of houses using three different colors with minimum cost.