I applied through other source. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Twilio (San Francisco, CA) in July 2021
Interview
Three stages:
- A timed takehome assessment on HackerRank
- Once
- A remote "onsite" that consists of four stages: a bar raiser round to assess your situational awareness and behavioral responses, technical talks with someone in the team, a systems design round, and a pair programming session
In-between the first and second round took a while, but afterwards my recruiter was super responsive, amazing prep guides, and came through with a final decision after the onsite in less than a week.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Study systems design
Study the core values of Twilio Magic
Rest is standard tech-onsite prep
I was given a take-home coding exercise, which was quite a bit more hefty than most others I've had. Sent a link to the public repo a few days later. The following week, the recruiter asked me to send the link I already sent. When I followed up the next week, I found that the recruiter's email bounced - they were no longer with the company. So I then emailed a higher-up, who passed me along to another recruiter, who I then sent my exercise to yet again. A rejection followed soon after with no feedback.
Phone screen and onsite with a few leetcode and system design questions. The overall process was professional and the recruiters did a good job of keeping me up to date.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement an LRU Cache with some existing boilerplate code
I applied online. I interviewed at Twilio (Dublin, Dublin)
Interview
Very friendly talent acquisition staff member, was given plenty of info for technical test, including what concepts would be asked. Had to do a systems design interview also and was given enough to prep for that.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Programming question about traversing graphs, systems design question about a photo printing service