Anyone who interviewed recently at #square? What are the questions like? Any focus on specific DS or coding patterns? LC premium has hardly any tagged questions. #offer #tech #interview #phoneinterviewquestions Any feeback is appreciated.
They don't ask typical leetcode style questions but the guiding principles remain pretty much the same. You would still need to know bfs,DFS or binary search as the questions would still need those concepts to be solved. Their questions are broken down into multiple tasks like (design a game feature)and each subsequent task will have increasing difficulty. Having said that some interviewers might still opt for typical LC style questions. If you don't mind me asking how did you get the interview? Did you apple online or a recruiter reached out?
Thanks for summarizing, any clue about what’s the expectation for the increasing subtasks? I had applied on their careers page, contacted the recruiter on LinkedIn as well.
The expectation is different for each question. Everyone who interviews had their own question and their own calibration for how candidates should do on it.
@OP, Sorry, I may not be any help to you but just curious how you got a call? Applied online or recruiter approached you?
2 way handshake
Had square interview couple years ago, and i really liked their process, mostly pair programming with one of their engineers solving practical / real life problems. Overall one of the better interview experiences i have ever had.
I guess that still holds but all the square interview posts say same thing. I’m not sure what it means by increasing the complexity of the problem. According to LC it’s two sum, three sum.. dead sum
The questions weren't necessary more complex, just adding on top of what you did in the previous step. Really liked my experience with them as well.
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Signed L6 offer at SQ last week. Fairly practical interview. There are opportunities to show DS/alg knowledge, but they are also looking for style, maintainability, ability to communicate about code, and collaboration skill (i.e. you will have to ask a lot of Qs and deal with changing requirements)
Wow.. congratulations on the offer. What was the breakdown of the rounds?
Congratz :)
2 pair programming sessions in the morning, not leecode but similar, then design interview + meeting with the manager in the afternoon.
This is right. For L6+ there's a leadership interview too.
How is the interview process for Sr. frontend engineer? Do they give you option to do take home code assignment?
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Did their phone screens last year. Mostly practical questions, not from leetcode. The questions evolved from simple to bit complex. Also they generally do 2 phone screens.
Thanks, did you clear the on-site rounds as well?
No I didn’t clear the second phone screen