Candidatei-me por meio de recrutador(a). O processo levou 2 dias. Fiz uma entrevista na empresa Block.
Entrevista
Has no complaints about process itself, the 30 min screening interview followed by technical interview conducted via CoderPad. The task was to implement miniscript language. Couple example of statements given. When this statements pass tests, interviewer adds different kind of statements to language and ask to modify your program to handle them too. This is really standard task in computer industry, I've done it many times on the job and there is whole theory and set of tools (parsers) which programmer typically use in practice. However since this is a CodePad - you cannot use third parties libraries. The standard way to solve such kind of tasks is to have a grammar, break down input into tokens and then apply parser. Since the only time you have at your disposal is 45 min, some steps needs to be hacked, so for lexical parsing I used regular expressions and for grammar parser - just branching logic based on first token. The interesting question is what kind of skills company trying to verify with this sort of test? How to solve standard task in very strict time constraints? The task is trivial itself, but all experience made me think company looking for hackers rather than engineers. I am going to skip on further interviewing with Square regardless of interview results which are not known to me yet.
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 1
Implement miniscript language. Couple example of statements given. When this statements pass tests, interviewer adds different kind of statements to language and ask to modify your program to handle them too.
Inital take home, followed by extension interview, followed by a coding challenge, followed by system design interview.
The whole process took 3 months!
The interviewers are usually really nice and want you to do your best.
Fiz uma entrevista na empresa Block (New York, NY).
Entrevista
The interviewer was nice, and he is friendly and willing to give hint, the question has 2 follow-ups, it was hard to complete in time. The question was not a typical LeetCode
Fiz uma entrevista na empresa Block (San Francisco, CA).
Entrevista
Phone screen and then a full day of interviews. 3 pair programming challenges, a system design review and a prior experience interview. There was also an onsite lunch with a person from the company.
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 1
To design a hotel booking system. Pick any part (backend, frontend, database, api etc) and deepdive into that, explaining the decisions along the way.
