I applied through other source. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at X
Interview
I was contacted via someone from Twitter directly having had not applied for a position. They indicated that they had found me via a web search. I setup an interview with this person via e-mail and they were quite casual and I thought they were a fellow engineer but later found out they were one of Twitters many recruiters. The day of the interview I talked to them over the phone and it got just plain weird really fast. The person on the phone started blasting me with low level questions and then wanted to go over my job history. When I started asking questions they started to get somewhat agitated and hostile with me. He then started "picking apart" my resume and getting somewhat personal about my work history. What gives? You called me! If you had issues with my work history why did you bother me?
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
"how do we know that you won't accept a better offer from Google if we hire you"
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
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Risoluzione di un problema algoritmico che richiedeva l'utilizzo della funzione xor