I applied in-person. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Aperi (Camarillo, CA) in Apr 2019
Interview
I had an unfortunate occasion to be selected by a recruiter for a software engineer job in Camarillo. Being a local and told by the recruiter that the executives are very impressed with my experience and skills and the salary is 150 thousand dollars per year and the proximity to my location, I agreed to meet them in person. But it turned into such disappointing experience that I wished other professionals to be better prepared at interviews and learn from my experience. It was not what I had expected, a relaxed exchange of experience and the interview to be my open door to the professional opportunities. Expect the interview to be like a fight about who is more intelligent, being aware the CEO, a Dutch emigrant, is an awarded computer scientist full of himself which revealed me that the job, I applied for, was to replace someone who was very skilled but got a great offer at MIT which he could not refuse and left them.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The CTO was diplomatic and but confusing me, the job specs were about C++ programming and his questions were about web-layout design which happened me to have done well such projects in the last years. I met then the CEO, which spoke well English but I doubt he thinks in English the good social manners, cynical to my past experience. Followed a coding exercise which was trivial in nature but I did not foresee their intention, I wrote it immediately, instead they expected to be the best performance solution for execution speed and CEO was sly in interaction trying to teach me things which I knew but I did not expect they looked for, mentioning what I did is exactly what they do not do there. For instance one way is to process data with minimum memory another way is to use highest execution speed and generally both cannot be met at once and I did not know what they looked for. Then the CEO scanned my resume for skills and asked me to evaluate myself from 0 to 10 and how many years I have worked with them.