I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Sprout Social in Jan 2023
Interview
The interview process was straight forward (technical screen then on-site) and I received prompt communication from them, especially considering the holiday season. Everyone throughout the interviews (recruiter + engineers) was pleasant to chat with and introduced themselves with pronouns. In the middle of the on-site interview, there's also a coffee chat with another engineer at Sprout to openly ask questions about the company/work they do/etc. As an extrovert who likes talking with people, it was a nice break from the technical interviews of the day. My recruiter was also pleasant to chat with.
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Initial Technical Screen: Hackerrank screen - Easy/Medium on Leetcode On-site (system design interview with diagrams/pseudocode): - design a web crawler - design a malware detection for tweets - design a bike sharing service
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Sprout Social in Oct 2023
Interview
recruiter intro call schedule a tech screen. recruiter was tight lipped on what the interview would cover. tech screen: talk about a technical project, design a cupcake ordering app, find the intersection of two unsorted lists, then of two sorted lists.
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talk about a technical project, design a cupcake ordering app, find the intersection of two unsorted lists, then of two sorted lists.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Sprout Social
Interview
Conversation with recruiter. Easy first technical round with a bakery system design. 3.5 hours of final interview with panel - 2 hours of system design and an hour of behavioral/coffee chat, and another 30 mins with the HR. Too many system design questions. The interviewers are not helpful at all.
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Design bike rental. Design malware detection system in tweets. Design radiation detection
An extremely daunting interview made better by an awesome recruiter. Lots of system design - this matters more for senior roles. I think I went through 5 total system design interviews. The last system design interview was so weird for me. I'd say my performance was definitely influenced negatively by one of the interviewers. He spoke extremely fast, slurring and blending his words into each other and had an accent. Not really his fault but wouldn't using another interviewer be better? I couldn't understand the problem he was explaining well and every time I asked him a clarifying question, I got more confused.
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system design, system design, system design, system design, system design,