First coding round, ask to solve a medium question in 20 mins. Can not use brute force, need to being straight to the optimal solution. Code quality matters. No clarification,
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Applied Intuition in Mar 2024
Interview
A couple of virtual interview rounds followed by multi-round onsite interviews. The recruiter was really helpful and gave feedback throughout the process.
The onsites were a mix of casing and a very bizarre culture fit/ behavioral round with some of their senior engineering and product team managers. In the behavioral, I was asked about all my major decision-making throughout my education and career. Some were regarding decisions I made over a decade ago, including questions like what colleges I applied to, got into, how I chose the college I attended, etc.
Apart from the in-person behavioral round, the process was straightforward (product cases) but challenging. There is an emphasis on technical depth and speed/clarity of responses.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Case: drawing wireframes, prioritization
Behavioral: What colleges did you apply to? What colleges did you get into?
It's like the recruiter tries to make it hard for you as compared to being supportive - mine was deliberately cryptic and asked me to prepare for a product sense round and in the interview they did not do product sense but asked a random pricing question. Interviewer was late coming to the interview and did not leave space for any questions I could ask.