Status: Grad student
Position: Software Engineer Intern
Location: CA

First Round: Phone Screening (15 minutes)

• Self introduction, about the company and this role.
• Briefly go over the resume.
• Easy technical questions about one project on the resume.

Second Round: Telephonic (1 hour)

• Interviewer messaged me last minute saying that there is a change of plans and we would have a video interview. I had to install the required softwares then which delayed the interview by a few minutes.
• Asked technical questions on some of the skills listed on my resume for the first 25minutes. Nothing too complex.
• How to check whether a string is an anagram of the other.
• How to check if a string is a palindrome.
• How to check if a string is an anagram of a palindrome.
• A math puzzle.

Overall Experience:
I had a negative experience. The last minute communications on changes in the mode of interview gave me an impression of unprofessionalism. Also after spending the first 25minutes on the resume, interviewer was expecting me to solve too many questions in the next 30 minutes. Even though the questions were very easy, its hard to code so many questions in such a short time. The last math puzzle was given to me when we had just 5 minutes left to wrap up the call. So be prepared to solve questions extremely fast.