I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at X (San Francisco, CA) in Apr 2016
Interview
I applied online at the start of March and received an email asking me to participate in a Hacker Rank challenge 2 weeks later. There was 1 hour to complete 2 questions. The questions we easy in hindsight but were presented in a very wordy way, they revolved around string manipulation and some algorithms.
By April I was assigned a recruiter, who contacted me via email, to organize a phone screen. The Phone screen was with an engineer that worked in the team I was interviewing for and there was 1 main coding question and a lot of opportunity to ask questions about Twitter and the role.
Another 2 weeks and then an offer to come for an onsite for "1-on-1"s on one of 3 days that they were running for the new grad season. For me there were 3 interviews, although others had 4 or 5 depending on how many teams were interested in them. All three were coding questions, the first centered around css and javascript, the second a string/algorithm one and the final was a OO design.
I was notified about an offer by then end of that week since I went on the last day of the onsite interviews. The initial offer was amazing and I didn't feel compelled to negotiate.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I'm sure it varies depending on the team that is interested in you. For me, a lot of the questions were very similar to what Hacker Rank has on offer.
Phone screen, followed by two coding rounds, one system design, and one HM/behavioral round. Prepare with LeetCode tagged questions related to data structures, algorithms, and system design topics. Prepare for Behavioural in STAR method.
Went through two screenings and virtual onsite. Technical team members were friendly and great to speak with. Recruiters were pretty awful - the one that set up the virtual onsite gave everybody different zoom links and trying to find the correct room to join really cut into my interview time and made me stressed out during the VO. Main recruiter scheduled a phone call to discuss results after the VO for when it was past midnight in my timezone but never called or responded to my followup.
To the recruiter: you don't need to try to keep me warm by scheduling a phone call and ghosting me when I only asked you whats the decision timeline. If its rejection just email to let me know instead of wasting more of my time especially when its late in my timezone.
In general this would've been a positive experience if the recruiters weren't so bad.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at X (London, England) in Apr 2025
Interview
Ho effettuato un colloquio conoscitivo con HR dopodiché una sessione di live coding e domande tecniche con il responsabile dell'area. Domande vertevano su vari algoritmi e complessità in termini di tempo e spazio
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Question 1
Risoluzione di un problema algoritmico che richiedeva l'utilizzo della funzione xor