I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Chewy (Boston, MA) in Apr 2021
Interview
3 rounds -
First recruiter call which consisted of behavioral and basic technical questions. The recruiters are non-technical but they were given a cheatsheet of technical questions to ask.
Second thing, I was asked to take a java assessment with 15 MCQ questions (you need to get min. 12 right to pass). Exact same questions which someone mentioned earlier.
Third round: 1 hour behavioral-technical mix. round over video call. It was an easy question. However I messed up by going for the most optimized solution right off the bat; so couldn't complete it. I would suggest that 1. don't waste a lot of time over behavioral questions. That will take time out of your coding challenge. I was supposed to get 30 min for coding, but ended up with less than 20 min. If they don't remind you (which happened in my case) remind them that 30 min are allocated for coding.
I tried to avoid O(n^2) by avoiding nested for loop and went for DP approach in 20 min. It's overkill at this stage. Just get the job done and get a few test cases passing. That's more than enough.
Fourth, another multi-team, multi-round interview, but I didn't make it to this last round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an array of numbers which represent song duration, find all sets such that the sum of those durations is one 60s. eg: {10, 20, 30, 40}
pairs would be, 10-20-30, 20-40
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Chewy (Seattle, WA) in May 2023
Interview
Recruiters were super helpful and accommodated my request to reschedule the interview (because of personal matters). All interviewers were very friendly and the interview was more like a discussion with your teammate.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Phone screen round: LC medium question (on arrays). Interviewer asked about the time complexity and asked to optimize. Onsite round of interviews: (there were 4 interviews) 1. LC medium problem on string manipulation. Interviewer asked few behavioral type questions as well. 2. This interview was about code debugging and writing test cases to meet the requirements. 3. System design interview. Interviewer asked to design Twitter clone. 4. Behavioral round with the Director of Engineering. He asked 3 "Tell me about a time..." type questions and asked follow-up questions to know more about the scenario that I mentioned. Overall, very good interview process. Expect behavioral type questions in all rounds. It would be great to prepare "what could you have done differently in project X that you talked about" questions.
I applied through other source. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Chewy
Interview
Initial phone screening with a recruiter, followed by an hour technical review using HackerRank. Virtual onsite consisted of debugging a parking lot, coding (leetcode/ return top K elements), system design (reservation app), and behavioral round.
The interviewers were okay. Some more personable/engaging than others. Overall long process for a non MAANG company. Ultimately I tuned down the offer because I couldn’t look past the negative company reviews
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Behavioral round was focused on “customer first” and how your previous experiences related to that
The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Chewy (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2023
Interview
The interview process was very similar to Amazon. One screening followed by one day of onsite. The onsite had one system design, one coding and one behavioral interview. The interviewers were friendly and I cleared all rounds with flying colors. The only negative thing was the recruiter experience. I had discussed my minimum expectations with the recruiter before starting the interview process. After hearing my expectations, I was recalibrated for Sr Engineer role from a SDE 2 role. But despite clearing the Sr SDE interview the offer given to me was way low balled. Less than what I make as a SDE 2 in my current organization and like 30% less than my expectations. In the end, the whole thing felt like a huge waste of time and resources for both parties and I would not be interested in interviewing with them again.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leetcode medium questions related to standard bfs, strings etc.