I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Hortonworks (Bengaluru) in July 2015
Interview
I was interviewed for the Software development engineer in Test position. I was contacted by a recruiter and he explained me about the role and expectations. I went through the interview process which took more than a week. Interviews were focused on coding skills , automation , designing , architecture etc. Interview rounds were with existing sdet's , developers ,hiring manager, GM ,onsite leads. There was a de brief round where I got more insight about the company and the work.
Recruiter kept me updated on my progress, answered every e-mail and phone call. I found the overall process to be pretty organized and quick.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Hortonworks (Bengaluru) in Oct 2017
Interview
Total 4 Rounds
Skype Interview - 1 Round
How to find the processes running on port 80 and kill them using unix commands
How to replace all occurrences of / with \ in a file
Onsite Interview - 3 Rounds.
1st round - Coding prowess
2nd Round - Data Structures
3rd Round - Questions on Linux FS traversal, Selenium, REST APIs
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
How to find ERROR logs from a nested structure of directories
I applied online. I interviewed at Hortonworks (Santa Clara, CA) in Jan 2016
Interview
All the interviewers from same race and many were not willing to hear the response. it seems to me all the interviewers only know how to read Leet code and ask questions from there.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Longest Palindromic Substring,Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters,many data structure questions, I was asked more than 45 technical questions including 10+ programing questions within 3 hrs of time.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Hortonworks (Bengaluru) in Jan 2016
Interview
The whole process is quick.
The call for interview came on day1. The interviews happened on day3 and I had the results by day5.
There were 6 rounds of technical interviews. The whole focus is on algorithms and data structures.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Focus on algorithms and datastructures.
Questions on dynamic programming (coin change issue)
Framework level question on log merge.