I applied through college or university. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at X (San Francisco, CA) in Nov 2015
Interview
Submitted resume at a career fair where I talked with an engineer about personal projects. Then a recruiter sent an email and with a coding challenge hosted on hackerrank that I didn't make it through.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Had to remember a property from modular arithmeticthat I hadn't used since my discrete math course (seemed like a rather weird thing to have on a first round coding challenge).
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at X
Interview
Coding challenge followed by first phone interview. If you do well at that it is followed by 4 back to back interviews (3 technical, 1 behavioral). I aced all of my interviews, with the interviewers telling me how great I did, and that I finished 10 minutes before they expected. They seemed super positive and almost ensured me I'd get the job. A few days later, I get an automated email from some recruiter saying I've been rejected but that they couldn't give me feedback. Overall, it was quite obvious that they rejected me due to not being from a "target school" of theirs.
I really wouldn't recommend accepting an offer from them anyway. Look at their stocks, and growth rates. They are abysmal. They are also in the midst of layoffs. I was told by people inside that it is highly likely that the internship program will be cancelled either due to budget cuts or a possible acquisition before this summer.
The worst part of my rejection is that I actually have experience in Scala, the language they use and my interviews went perfectly.
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
Given a directory of files and folders. Go through and return all the phone numbers that are contained in the files. (Initial Interview)
You're given a large file that contains sorted log messages. Each log message is a timestamp followed by a log message. Given a range of timestamps, find all the log messages within the timestamp range.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at X (San Francisco, CA) in Oct 2015
Interview
Introductory phone calls followed by two technical phone screens consisting of prototypical engineering interview questions. Onsite interview was a half day affair consists of a series of whiteboard technical questions along with a general Q&A. The interviewers were friendly, generally helpful, and were careful to leave time at the end to answer any questions I had.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain something to me in five minutes that you learned in your education or prior work experience that changed how you view problems.