Weirdest interview experience?
Mine was interviewing for a front end position and getting asked how to use parallel programming for manipulating 2 TB of data
Linked list with each node being a pointer to a binary tree with characters in it and was told to find the shortest word with non repeating characters. This was at Amazon for a SDE1 role lol.
What a relevant question. As we all know, this is the core functionality of Amazon
I feel like your interviewer was getting you to help them with a practice question for their upcoming interview. Hopefully this got flagged by the recruiter. Sorry for your experience.
Was in a major metropolitan area interviewing at a subsidiary of a company that got bought a few years earlier for $3B. VP Eng walked me thru office, bragging about all their MIT/Harvard grads. Had a few questions, then salary came up. Gave what I thought was a very fair number ($115k, 5YOE), and VP laughed "I don't even pay my senior engineers that much". til: they don't teach how to balance your budget or negotiation at top tier schools
The immature ivory tower companies usually don’t last long. He probably meant these are his new grads that are giving him 50% effort and doing leetcode after work to gtfo the company
IIRC MIT has very good material for their undergrads that prepares them for negotiation and other finance related matters.
I was in an interview at Google Cloud and the RRK interviewers (2 young guys) were extremely rude and seemed like they didn’t want to be there. I called the recruiter right after to say I was no longer interested and told her my reasons.
Good job, should have told them to gtfo
I honestly wanted to but I decided to keep it professional.
The person interviewing me ended up in hospital. I walked them back from the interview to the main office and explained the symptoms, and he was taken straight to the ER. I think I would have had an offer anyway, but this definitely clinched it.
For real?
100% true. I phoned up a few friends who are doctors and described the symptoms. They told me it sounded pretty bad (they both jumped to the same conclusion). Anyway, the guy had an MRI and was (and continues to be) fine.
"Star Wars vs. Star Trek." Guy was a loony
Was asked an LC hard and got the answer fed to me within 10 minutes.
Did you go to the next round? Lmao
This was during the onsite 😬 I probably failed it.