Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite segnalazione di un dipendente. La procedura ha richiesto 5 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Heap
Colloquio
I did an initial phone screen, where I mostly talked about my professional history, and talked in-depth about a side project that gained some traction online. Moved onto a pair-programming interview over shared online code-editor and video chat. I'd say it was a medium difficulty question that I answered correctly and fairly quickly after spending ten-ish minutes on the wrong track and correcting myself. I didn't really "turn it on" personality-wise during this round, cause I was exhausted after doing another programming interview with a different company. The interviewer seemed disengaged, and I didn't move forward to the next round. Overall, the recruiters were really slow to respond to me, and I kept on getting passed from person to person over email because my main point-of-contact was out of the office, and no one knew who was supposed to be handling me. This was annoying. These initial phone and technical screens should've taken maybe 1.5 weeks to schedule, but I was strung along for over a month.
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A much easier version of the "Knight Dialer" problem on Leetcode.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un'altra fonte. La procedura ha richiesto 2 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Heap (San Francisco, CA)
Colloquio
Skipped resume review via interviewing.io; which by itself said great things about diversity in the company. Clever technical questions; but the last one (about databases) kind of dragged out. Database-related-experience wasn't in either their job description or my resume, but they kept on it well past the point where I ran out of prior knowledge to use and examples to list; just spending >10 minutes poking without hints. Confusing ending to an otherwise pleasant process.
La procedura ha richiesto 3 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Heap
Colloquio
Overall, this process was very thorough:
- initial interview
- coding interview
- virtual on-site:
- - 2 more coding interviews
- - systems design
- - product demo
- - pm interview
- - values interview
I learned a lot about the company, product, and development process, and I had a chance to talk with a lot of people. Everyone was really friendly and smart. It took a lot of time, but I think it was worth it.
However, I was a little miffed about how they handled my cohort. After completing the virtual on-site (and spending a lot of time on this process), I was told that they had already filled all the current engineer reqs, and they would have to ask for more money to potentially hire ahead for next year. I felt like they should have finished the interview process with all candidates before proceeding to make offers, and it wasn’t fair to those of us who interviewed after they filled all their reqs. In the end, they told me I didn’t quite make it, which is fine, and I guess I’ll never know about the details. I just felt a little shorted that they made a bunch of offers the week before I finished my six interview on-site.
Despite that, I thought it was a great company with really smart, friendly people. Seems like it would be a great place to work.
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I was going to write a question here but eh, that seems a little unfair to Heap.
- Regular Behavior questions
- Matrix exercise
It was an average experience, you should practice the kind of questions I just put above. This Glassdoor rule of 50 word minimum is really stupid.