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      Software Engineer, Backend Interview

      3 Oct 2017
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 8 weeks. I interviewed at GitHub in June 2017

      Interview

      Initial code challenge (very easy -- for me, all of this is "for me") just as a gate. Then it went to three 1.5 hour live code challenges where the person on the phone is not a pair but a judge. They might help you get unstuck but it's not pair programming. I was very nervous, I prepped and rested as best as I could. They had their recruiter call me ahead of time and help set the tone and stage which was very nice and rare. She said "have water, relax" etc. The whole process was very fair. The most fair I've seen. No algorithm or Big-O questions. I didn't get an offer. They said I passed all the challenges. Maybe the VP of Engineering didn't like me for whatever reason. I just have to guess because they don't do feedback like most places. "As a result of our no feedback policy, I am unable to share the specifics on our decision making process." So I really have no idea why I didn't get an offer. Frustrating.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      Word count, log grep of text in Ruby.
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      Hook up OAuth to a Rails app and use the Octokit gem.
      1 Answer
      4

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