I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at FICO in Jul 2022
Interview
Overall very messy process, ad hoc calls from the recruiters and ad-hoc interviews during early mornings/late nights by offshore interviewers on a very short notice. I took 4 technical interviews which weren't much different, no different data points collected, just felt like year 2000 interview style. After that, they down leveled and asked for more interviews. In the end, I was ghosted. What a waste of time!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1) Run down your resume, projects and experience 2) Typical Java interview questions 3) A few architecture questions like your ideal architecture, patterns, things to look for 4) Kubernetes questions
There were five different rounds out of which four were technical and last one management, which was then followed by HR discussions lastly. All were of average to hard difficultly level. First round was just a discussion to understand profile and expalin the opportunity.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
System design round - to explain design of a rule engine
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at FICO (San Diego, CA) in Jun 2017
Interview
The interview process went very well. After the initial call it took about a week to arrange the onsite interview. They asked lots of questions related to database scalability; in my case MongoDB related. Everyone was courteous and very pleasant to speak with. I was offered water, coffee by just about everyone that came in contact with me.
The sad part in all of this is the fact that they never contacted me after the interview. Not a word; no emails - zip.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a a roomba like vacuum with a limited APIs like turn left, turn right, go forward, clean, detect clean area, how would you ensure you have traversed and cleaned an entire room. Bonus: how would you optimize to save energy?