Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Pocket Gems as 100% positive with a difficulty rating score of 5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Mobile Engineer and rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Mobile Engineer and roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Pocket Gems takes an average of 42 days when considering 1 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Mobile Engineer had the quickest hiring process (on average 42 days), whereas Mobile Engineer roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 42 days).
This was a phone interview and I was not asked any questions about my resume. We directly started coding two questions. One question is easy just implement strStr(),find the first occurrence of String a in String b. It is enough to just provide the brute-force way. No need to use KMP. Another is traverse an ternary expression to a binary tree.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Pocket Gems in Sep 2015
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Took about 5 weeks to schedule a simple phone call. The recruiting team is the worst I have ever worked with. Asking a simple question takes them about a week to respond with an unsatisfactory answer (such as who will I be speaking with?). After having the phone call with the CTO I declined to continue. Life is too short to work with a company who doesn't care about the quality of their recruiting efforts, especially when you need to build a team.
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I was interviewed by the CTO. He asked me zero questions and just tried to sell me on Pocket Gems.
I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Pocket Gems (San Francisco, CA) in Oct 2015
Interview
Had a couple rounds of phone interviews, then a technical test on coderpad.io. They were really unsure about what the role is. I think they wanted a heavily technical person, who babysits the junior folks. Not really my thing.
The process took 6 weeks. Had an inital phone call with HR, then with the Director, then they scheduled an online technical test, to whcih they completely blew me off. No phone call or nothing. I took the whole day off my current job to be available and they didn't even send me cancellation email. Rude.
During every step of this process I had to keep prodding HR for any sort of forward movement. I finally got them to reschedule the technical test.
A few days after the techncial test for feedback , since i had heard nothing. I emailed HR and within 5 minutes I got a response saying no thank you, we only want the best.
What a terrible thing to do is to make people chase you down inorder for you to tell them no.
The tech lead mentioned they "work hard and play hard", which of course, is code for, 60 hour weeks.
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Asked an advanced algorithm question, how to write a function to copy all the nodes in a graph. Had to do this on the coderpad.io, always clunky at best.