I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Stack Overflow in Nov 2021
Interview
Had a call with internal recruiter to get a baseline expectation for both sides.
1 hr video interview with Hiring manager - Leetcode easy-medium style question about string/array manipulation
1 hr call peer coding exercise about data structures - Leetcode easy-medium style question about data structures
1 hr call systems design exercise about mocking up a theoretical system - Pretty straightforward, but do push to use a whiteboard app if possible
1 hr call debugging exercise, going through an actual bug that was found in production - This one was a bit more vague, and I don't think my style of debugging meshed well with my interviewer (I tend to talk out loud about all possibilities, so I think interviewer thought I was getting side-tracked)
Overall was fairly straightforward, did not due well on the debugging exercise for a number of reasons, but recruiter was very willing to confirm the feedback that I had hypothesized for myself and help me improve myself going forward.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leetcode easy-medium questions about string/array manipulation, data structures, and planning a system design for a system
I had a series of 5 interviews. It started with an interview with a recruiter. I then met with a director, which was a mix of technical and non-technical discussion. There were then two technical interviews. After those I met with a manager and product owner.
I thought the process was excellent. Everyone was professional but kind and friendly. The recruiter I initially met with kept me updated and made sure I always knew what was going on. The technical interviews were collaborative, with me on the keyboard driving the solution forward.
I had the sense through the entire process that they wanted me to be successful and find out if I was a good fit. There were no tricks or gotchas.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was asked about my experience and thoughts on trying to work on an existing codebase, and how to slowly drive forward incremental improvements to it.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Stack Overflow in July 2022
Interview
i interviewed for SO in the summer 2022, and must say it was one the best processes I had in this round of interviews.
The technical interviews were comprehensive without being insanely extensive. Computer science based, but not pointless memorization of leetcode exercises. Hands-on system design, with real world examples but also open-ended and conceptual. Behavioural questions that really made sense.
Communication was always clear, frequent and flexible. I always felt accompanied through a fun process, rather than a boring or stressful barrier to the company.
The company, well, is Stackoverflow :)
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Stack Overflow in May 2022
Interview
The interview process is easy although quite long with many steps. The interviewers are nice people and the conduct the interviews very professionally. However, HR is just horrible, they missed some of my emails with some questions and never replied. Then after wasting a long time completing the whole of their process they just don't write back. I guess I should take silence as no offer, but in my more than 10 years doing interviews I have never seen such a rude company that doesn't take the hassle of even writing a line to say you don't have an offer.
I have sent them a some emails to get some feedback but after a couple of weeks I think it's time to give up.
In fairness I read exactly the same already in other Glassdoors reviews, but I thought it to be maybe some exception, but I was wrong I think they don't write back after having completed the whole interview process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design retweet, table tennis app system design, remove vowels from string. Very easy.