I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at ThousandEyes (San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2017
Interview
Contacting by the recruiter, after a short talk, he send me a short survey about your previous coding experience and also ask some coding sample. After their "CTO" review, they will decide give you a coding challenge or not. I got a mini project and spend about two night to implement it. After submission, the recruiter disappear. No feedback, no result. I think this company should at least give some feedback such as drawback of my implementation. After all, I spend some time to implement that project. They totally not show basic respect for the candidate. My suggestion for others want to interview with this company: Do not wast your time to do the project!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Title: Periodic task scheduler
Importance: Monitoring internal and external systems requires a
fixed sample rate in order to perform statistical analysis and
correlate data from multiple sources.
Description:
Implement a periodic task scheduler in C++ (not plain C). The tasks
in this scheduler will be network or system probes, possibly with a
wide variety of execution times. It should be possible to set a
separate execution frequency for each task. These tasks will return
one or more "metrics" in the form of decimal values. Store both the
raw metric data and some aggregate metrics (such as average,
minimum, and maximum) in a SQLite database. The aggregate metrics
should be kept up to date for each new data point that you collect.
If the program is run multiple times, it should continue where it
left off, augmenting the existing data.
Hi there,
We really appreciate your feedback! It's always our intent to treat everyone with respect, and respond to any candidate that takes the coding challenge. We are constantly working to improve our process, and your feedback helps us do that.
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I found the question fair but challenging. While I understood the fundamentals, my lack of experience with certain advanced techniques kept me from fully passing. I'll focus on refining these areas to improve my performance in the future. Thank you for the opportunity.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at ThousandEyes in June 2022
Interview
Initial Leetcode - style Interview followed by on site
On site consisted of another coding round, systems design, and behavioral. I was not in the right headspace and did poorly on the first coding round. They allowed me to schedule one more coding round to "make up" for my first failing (despite passing through the initial coding round). The "make up" round was an extremely vague question with no example inputs/outputs and despite trying to communicate with the interviewer on the question, he told me another requirement of the problem which completely changed how I would have designed the solution 5 minutes before the end of the interview.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Due to the NDA, I will keep it vague.
Leetcode Hard graph problem (Djikstra's but with some tweaks)
A fairly regular software engineer interview process. The first call was with the recruiter. After that, there was a technical round with one of the developers. The response time was also quick.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement a new data structure which can do following
set(key, value)
get(key)
last()
delete(key)
