Can anyone offer some insight on the coinbase onsite process? How are the programming sessions. They're 90 mins each which is a bit unusual. Is system design related specifically to their systems? Would appreciate if anyone who's interviewed there recently can comment.
Standard stuff, two different programming prompts for the programming, one slightly more algorithmic but nothing crazy. Systems design is talking through how you would design a system to meet requirements we define in the interview, not related to internal systems
What's the biggest reason people fail the programming section or best way to prepare? It seems it's not typical leetcode so not sure if you have any general advice here. Is the systems design similar to something you'd find on grokking the system design interview?
Read this https://www.coinbase.com/mission Values are evaluated in all interviews. Ex. You will be rejected even though you wrote the optimized solution but failed to clearly communicate your approach.
Did well with values, 1 programming round, and system design. 2nd programming round I struggled with because I used Java (api based question, you might be familiar) and didn't finish it. My logic was good and I spoke through the solution but ran out of time without a working solution. Do I have any chance of passing?
It depends. We have 1.5 hr rounds for a reason. If interviewer felt that he would like to work with you in the future you might get good score on that.
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Just say you are a mission focused person and will ignore bad things happening to other people because it doesnt affect you. You should be golden.
Is this in regards to coinbases apolitical work stance? I will ignore them at work because I'm being paid to do a task that is unrelated to those things. I'd expect that to be seen as a positive at any company or at least any company I'd want to work for.
Well said ctl136!