NewfmWl50

Chewy Interview Experience

I had an interview with Chewy yesterday. There was a medium LC question asked and I was successfully able to produce the solution for the question. The interviewer asked me to write the code and when I first ran my solution there were few errors because I was not importing correct namespaces. Hence I imported them and ran again and it compiled correctly. I received a call from recruiter today saying that I was not selected and reason they said was my code when ran had error and also stated the exact errors I got and said that the errors are main reason why they are passing on me. What I don’t understand is the code compiled after I imported the namespace which was immediate. He said at least I am providing you a feedback and will get back to me next week. I am very confused. Did I do anything wrong ? Is the expectation not to have an error when we run the code ? Does correcting the errors and compiling the code and producing output has no value ?

NCR Corporation hmm43 Feb 4, 2022

This is really stupid. Part of software engineering is to be able to solve problems which is what you did.

Shopify FinDude Feb 4, 2022

Da fuk? Do Chewy people know their website is shit? If they can’t hire folks who can solve problems it’ll remain shit. I’d say move on dude.

Perficient gxyvc Feb 4, 2022

Wtf…why even bother compiling it. Should do like Google.

Blue Nile humble_pie Feb 4, 2022

Similar exp move on buddy. You dodged a bullet. Why wld u wanna join such a company.

Expedia Group kHvS00 Feb 6, 2022

Well you can apply again. I dont think there is cool period like Amazon in case you are still interested in interviewing with them.

Chewy chowtapian Feb 7, 2022

Congrats, you've successfully dodged a bullet. I've had people tell me they passed on candidates for all sorts of stupid reasons. Clearly you experienced this.

Chewy gnhhfhj Feb 8, 2022

Was this a phone screen OP? I've never heard of anyone failing a candidate based on syntax / missing imports

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fmWl50 OP Feb 11, 2022

Initial round with a developer

Chewy gnhhfhj Feb 13, 2022

I'm guessing it was a very inexperienced interviewer. Unfortunately the recruiters don't know enough about coding to realize how unreasonable the reason given to pass on you was. At least it was only an initial round and you didn't waste 5 hours interviewing

Chewy suhdudeeee Feb 15, 2022

You dodged a bullet 100%. Don’t waste your time!

BCG YskT60 Feb 17, 2022

What was the question asked?

SAP blind3211 Feb 18, 2022

OP, what's the question asked?