Ongoing interviews | Lessons learned | A fun experiment
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I am currently interviewing for a software engineering position and I thought I'd post all my experiences here till I receive an offer. I am currently interviewing with multiple companies and I will update this post once I receive a final decision from them.

Company: Sortable
Process: Call with the hiring manager to determine if my background is a fit for their stack. They wanted someone for a full stack position but I am more inclined towards building distributed systems.
Result: Reject

Company: North
Process: Received a hackerrank test for 1hr which required to download multiple pages from an api using core Java. They expected that I know Gson(since that was the only 3rd party library available/allowed to use). I got the code working correctly but some test cases didn't pass because those test cases kept timing out. I assumed that it would be enough to focus on correctness because nowhere in the test was mentioned that we had to do it efficiently.
Result: Reject
Lesson learned: Always strive for the most optimal solution even if it's not mentioned in the test.

Company: YuJa
Process: Got an email saying I was shortlisted for an interview (after submitting my resume to their job posting) and was asked for my transcripts and few available times next week. After submitting my transcripts, I was told they would not be moving forward with my application.
Result: Reject
Lesson learned(to my past self): Even though there is no correlation between your academic scores and success in life, they are important just because companies will screen candidates based on them. (I already have one year of software engineering experience, also do you even want to work at such a company?)

Company: RouteThis
Process: Round 1 with hr manager to get to know my experience and background. Round 2 with Director Of Engineering to explain the job requirements and expectations.
Result: I withdrew my application after round 2 because I did not feel my interests were aligned with the job requirements.

Company: Versapay
Process: Round 1 personality and cognitive abilities test. Round 2 with engineering manager. Silence for a week and then I sent a follow up email.
Result: I was told they would not be moving forward with my application.

Company: AnalyzeRe
Process: Round 1 with HR Manager. Round 2 with team mainly focused on technical discussions.
Result: Ghosted after round 2. I am assuming I was rejected.

Company: Verafin
Process: Round 1 with HR Manager and someone from tech team. After round 1, they asked for my transcripts and references.
Result: Rejected after sending transcripts and references.

Company: ThoughtWire
Process: Round 1 with HR. Round 2 with SWE focused on tech discussion. Round 3 was a coding test. Scored 93% on the test.
Result: Rejected after the coding test.

Company: Mistplay
Process: Round 1 with HR. Round 2 was a hackkerrank challenge which consisted of 2 questions. 1st question was variation of top K words. However, you were expected to get data from a json api. No external libraries allowed. 2nd question was finding shortest path from src to dest after collecting all gold coins.
Result: Reject after Round 2.

Company: Article
Process: Round 1 was hackerrank test which consisted of 3 questions. 1st was Leetcode easy. 2nd was a big SQL query. 3rd was DP Leetcode Hard.
Result: Reject since I could not answer question 3.

Company: Samsung (For a contractual maintenance SWE position)
Process: Round 1 with team manager during which I was told that this position is going to be a maintenance position and not a development position. I lost interest after hearing that.
Result: Reject

Will update this post as soon as I hear back from other companies!

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