I applied online. I interviewed at Compass (New York, NY) in Feb 2021
Interview
Initial round with recruiter, was very friendly and gave good background. She made clear that I had two options, to interview with a 3rd party service, or interview with one of their engineers. I chose the latter to learn more about the team and get a better sense of their day to day work.
Met with a Senior Engineer that worked on what appeared to be their Internal Tools / Infrastructure team. Had a brief chat with him that was friendly, and then when reaching the coding interview he started off by saying "this shouldn't be too tough!" and proceeded to give me a LC Hard dynamic programming problem. Throughout the entire process he was interrupting and telling me what I should and shouldn't be doing.
Luckily I had little interest in the company and only accepted the interview for practice -- would definitely follow the advice others have given here and stay away. Not sure why Leetcode hard would ever be considered an "easy" problem to do in 30 minutes, nor did I see it as particularly relevant for the job.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a long string and a character limit, write a function that would return an array of strings with the text justified -- account for all edge cases (last line, proper spaces between strings, etc.)
I applied through university. I interviewed at Compass (Bellevue, WA)
Interview
Pretty chill. Three rounds of debugging, technical (leetcode), and behavioral, which was more like high-level with AI assistance. The values did not come up very much while going through the interview process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Had us do an AI round about forms and matching things.
Debugging, technical, then behavioral. I had been given two language options for the debugging portion (Java or Python) during the phone interview then when I went to the onsite there seemed to be a miscommunication because the interview said I could use JS since I was applying as a frontend engineer. The debugging was pretty doable, the behavioral was odd but fine.
The interview process felt chaotic and poorly organized. What I was asked in the interview didn’t align with what HR told me to expect, and the interview started late. The lack of alignment between HR and the interviewer made it feel like the company overall may be chaotic. Afterward, HR’s follow-ups were generic and robotic, and the employer also mentioned layoffs, which added to the uncertainty. Overall, it didn’t feel worth the effort.